debugging

Debugging Links and Resources

  • Modules
    • devel module is all about instrumentation. It lets you see database queries and how long they're taking, tells you how long it took to render a page, and a thousand other indispensable things. Not recommended on a live site.
    • trace module will trace hooks and their execution. This is for people who understand what hooks are.
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Debugging Tools: Preparation and Investment Ahead of Time

If you invest in your infrastructure ahead of time, life will be so much easier. If you know how to load and dump the database quickly and how to get a file copy of a production database in moments, and you know how to revert to an earlier version of the code, life will be so much better. Learn how to do these things, whether you do "code" or not:

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Debugging Strategies

Turn on your brain first

Before beginning a debugging effort, turn on your brain. Ask yourself some questions:

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Drupal
debugging

Drupal Debugging

Debugging Drupal is not that much different from any kind of debugging or problem-solving, and the topics we'll cover are the same regardless of your level of Drupal or PHP expertise.

Here we'll cover three topics:

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