Working with the Profiler
The purpose of this tutorial
is to teach you how to profile files and applications in order to gain
maximal efficiency in the execution of your script.
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Purpose and
Usage
Zend Profiler detects bottlenecks in scripts by locating problematic
sections of code. These are scripts that consume excessive loading-time.
The Profiler provides you with detailed reports that are essential to
optimizing the overall performance of your application.
Zend Studio includes
five types of profiling:
Locally Profiling PHP Scripts - Profiling PHP files using Zend Studio 's internal PHP
Executable debugger.
Remotely Profiling PHP Scripts - Profiling PHP files using your
server's debugger.
Profiling PHP Web Pages - Profiling files, applications and
projects on your server, using the local or server copies of your
files.
Profiling URLs - Debug applications on your server by entering
a URL.
Toolbar Profiling - Debug files and applications directly from
your browser.
Profiling
PHP Scripts
Files can be profiled using either Zend Studio
's internal debugger or your external (remote) server.
Use the remote profiling function if you want to test the execution
of the file on your server's environment. This is especially relevant
if your server's loaded extensions are different to Zend Studio
's internal server.
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The
following procedure demonstrates how to profile a PHP Script,
either locally or remotely:
Create
a file, called Person, and copy-paste the example code into
it. ( Click here
for the example code)
(See the "Working
with the Profiler" Tutorial in Zend Studio
s Online Help for the example code.)
Create a second
file, called tryPerson, and copy-paste the example code into
it. ( Click here
for the example code).
See the "Working
with the Profiler" Tutorial in Zend Studio
's Online Help for the example code.
Save both files.
Click the arrow
next to the Profile button
on the toolbar and select Profile
Configurations... -or- from the main menu go to Run | Profile Configurations...
-or- right-click in PHP Explorer view and select Profile
Configurations....
A Profile dialog
will appear.

Double-click the
PHP Script option to create a new Profile configuration.
Enter a name for
the new configuration.
To profile the
file locally using Zend Studio
's internal debugger, select the PHP Executable setting under
the Debugger Location category and select the required PHP
executable (PHP 4 or 5).
To profile the file remotely on your server using the Zend
Debugger installed on your server, select the PHP Web Server
option and select your server from the drop-down list. (If
you have not yet configured a server, click the PHP Servers
link and follow the instructions under Adding
PHP Servers.)
Under PHP File,
click Browse and select
the "TryPerson" file.
Click Apply
and then Profile.
A confirmation
dialog will be displayed asking whether you want to open the
Profiling Perspective.
Click Yes. (If you
would like the Profiling Perspective to open by default in
the future, mark the 'Remember my decision' checkbox.)
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The
Profiling Perspective will open, displaying the Profiling Monitor
window with the following information:
Profiler Information
- provides general information on the profiling duration and
date, number of files constructing the requested URL and more.
In addition, it displays a Time Division Pie Chart for the
files in the URL.
The right side displays time division in a pie chart and the
left side provides the following information:
URL - The URL analyzed
Query - The specific query parameters
Path - The exact location of the first file called
Total Request Time - Total process time of the entire
page
Number of Files - Number of files composing the
page
Date - Date and time that the profiling took place


Note:
Click the 'Show as percentage' button on the
toolbar to see the statistics as percentages rather than times.


Clicking on the 'Covered lines' percentages
will open an editor containing the debug file, with the covered
lines highlighted:

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Profiling
PHP Web Pages
Zend Studio also
allows you to profile whole applications, projects or collections of files
that are already on the server.
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The following steps demonstrate
how to profile a file on an external server:
Create a file,
called Person, and copy-paste the example code into it.
( Click
here for
the example code).
See the "Working
with the Profiler" Tutorial in Zend Studio
's Online Help for the example code.
Create a second
file, called tryPerson, and copy-paste the example code into
it. ( Click here
for the example code).
See the "Working
with the Profiler" Tutorial in Zend Studio
's Online Help for the example code.
Save both files.
Copy them to your
server.
Click the arrow
next to the Profile button
on the toolbar and select Profile
Configurations... –or- right-click the file in PHP
explorer or within the file's editor window and select Profile As | Open Debug dialog.
A Profile dialog will appear.
Double-click on
the PHP Web Page option to create a new profile configuration.
Enter a name for
the new configuration.
Select the Zend
Debugger to from the Server Debugger drop-down list.
Ensure that your
server is selected from the list.
If you have not configured a server, click New
and enter:
Your server's name.
The URL of its document root.
Under the File/Project
category, click Browse
and select the "tryPerson" file. This will be the
file from which the profiling process will start.
Click Apply
and then Profile.
A confirmation dialog will be displayed asking whether you
want to open the Profiling Perspective.
Click Yes.
(If you would like the Profiling Perspective to open by default
in the future, mark the 'Remember my decision' checkbox.)
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The
Profiling Perspective will open, displaying the Profiling Monitor
window with profiling information.
See PHP Perspectives and
Views for details on the information displayed in the profiling
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