Is there a Pretty Print Stack Dump?

Question

Let\'s face it, debug_backtrace() output is not very pretty. Did anyone code a wrapper?

And what\'s your favourite pretty var_dump() (which is

Answer 1

The Xdebug extension can print stacktraces with a configurable degree of verbosity.

It also offers some additional var_dump() features such as syntax coloring:

Edit:

Regarding the inclusion of Xdebug in a commercial project.

The Xdebug license has only a few terms and seems pretty permissive.

Xdebug is a C extension. As such re-distributing it or part of it in your project may be somewhat difficult. Depending on your requirements I see a few options:

• Have your end user install Xdebug from a Linux distribution package or a DLL from the site
• Distribute .dll and .so files for all supported platforms
• Have your end user build the source code
• Distribute a custom build of PHP