[xdebug-general] Re: Dynamically Loading Xdebug

Hi!

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, rod wrote:

> Is it possible to dynamically load xdebug in a php script? My use
> case is I am using phpunit with hudson on some CI jobs, and would like
> to have one job generate code coverage statistics nightly. But, if I
> load xdebug all the time then this will slow down all the jobs that
> don't need it (99% of the other jobs). So, it would be nice if I
> could load xdebug only when I need to do code coverage stats.

Sadly you can't do that; Xdebug needs to be loaded before some Zend
Engine stuff happens.

> I've tried using the deprecated dl() function, and also the -d and -z
> php flags but has no luck. Now I'm thinking maybe I need to start php
> with a seperate ini file for this case.

The -z option should work actually; but you have to specify the full
path.

> So, is this possible? Or am I being dumb and there's actually a much
> better way to do this?

Nope; using a separate INI file is probably going to be the simplest.

cheers,
Derick

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