I didn't see any flashing lights or hear bells and whistles, but I should have a binary file that PHPStorm can inspect, located in the path I setup in my php.ini profiler_output_dir directive. To profile the node view I visited in my browser. To give you an idea of what is possible, lets profile the work required to view a simple Drupal node. For my dev site I used the php.ini config you see above and simply added a URL parameter “XDEBUG_PROFILE=on” to my site’s url this starts Xdebug profiling from the browser. For instance, if you are using Drush to run a migration, you can’t start the profiler on-demand, and that affects the profiler_trigger setting. Xdebug.profiler_output_dir=/tmp/profiler/ĭepending on what you are testing and how, you may want to adjust the settings for your site.

To setup your environment, edit your php.ini file and add the following lines:

To get going with profiling Drupal in PHPStorm and Xdebug you need: The more work your code does, the more information that the profiler stores file sizes for these logs can get very big very quickly. Whoa there cowboy! First you need to know that the act of profiling your code is itself taking resources to accomplish. If you want to know more about memory performance tracking you should check out Xdebug’s execution trace features. Note that Xdebug’s profiler does not track memory usage. Note: the below is not a full list of supported frameworks, as most of the modern PHP frameworks are supported by PhpStorm due to its in-depth understanding of general PHP. Whatever the reason, if you have been tasked with analyzing the performance of your Drupal codebase, profiling is one great way of doing so. PhpStorm is perfect for working with Symfony, Drupal, WordPress, Zend Framework, Laravel, Magento, Joomla, CakePHP, Yii, and other frameworks. You might need to profile your site or app if you work at a firm where performance is highly scrutinized, or if you are having problems getting a migration to complete. Profiling is about measuring the performance of PHP code, at least when we are talking about Drupal and Xdebug.

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