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| 1 | +============================================================================= |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | + Krumo |
| 4 | + version 0.2.1a |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +============================================================================= |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +You probably got this package from... |
| 9 | +http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/krumo/ |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +If there is no licence agreement with this package please download |
| 12 | +a version from the location above. You must read and accept that |
| 13 | +licence to use this software. The file is titled simply LICENSE. |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +OVERVIEW |
| 16 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 17 | +To put it simply, Krumo is a replacement for print_r() and var_dump(). By |
| 18 | +definition Krumo is a debugging tool (for PHP5), which displays structured |
| 19 | +information about any PHP variable. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +A lot of developers use print_r() and var_dump() in the means of debugging |
| 22 | +tools. Although they were intended to present human readble information about a |
| 23 | +variable, we can all agree that in general they are not. Krumo is an |
| 24 | +alternative: it does the same job, but it presents the information beautified |
| 25 | +using CSS and DHTML. |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +EXAMPLES |
| 28 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 29 | +Here's a basic example, which will return a report on the array variable passed |
| 30 | +as argument to it: |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + krumo(array('a1'=> 'A1', 3, 'red')); |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +You can dump simultaneously more then one variable - here's another example: |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | + krumo($_SERVER, $_REQUEST); |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +You probably saw from the examples above that some of the nodes are expandable, |
| 39 | +so if you want to inspect the nested information, click on them and they will |
| 40 | +expand; if you do not need that information shown simply click again on it to |
| 41 | +collapse it. Here's an example to test this: |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | + $x1->x2->x3->x4->x5->x6->x7->x8->x9 = 'X10'; |
| 44 | + krumo($x1); |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +The krumo() is the only standalone function from the package, and this is |
| 47 | +because basic dumps about variables (like print_r() or var_dump()) are the most |
| 48 | +common tasks such functionality is used for. The rest of the functionality can |
| 49 | +be called using static calls to the Krumo class. Here are several more examples: |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | + // print a debug backgrace |
| 52 | + krumo::backtrace(); |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | + // print all the included(or required) files |
| 55 | + krumo::includes(); |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | + // print all the included functions |
| 58 | + krumo::functions(); |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | + // print all the declared classes |
| 61 | + krumo::classes(); |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | + // print all the defined constants |
| 64 | + krumo::defines(); |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | + ... and so on, etc. |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +A full PHPDocumenter API documentation exists both in this package and at the |
| 69 | +project's website. |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +INSTALL |
| 72 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 73 | +Read the INSTALL file. |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +DOCUMENTATION |
| 76 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 77 | +As I said, a full PHPDocumenter API documentation can be found both in this |
| 78 | +package and at the project's website. |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | +SKINS |
| 81 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 82 | +There are several skins pre-installed with this package, but if you wish you can |
| 83 | +create skins of your own. The skins are simply CSS files that are prepended to |
| 84 | +the result that Krumo prints. If you want to use images in your CSS (for |
| 85 | +background, list-style, etc), you have to put "%URL%" in front of the image URL |
| 86 | +in order hook it up to the skin folder and make the image web-accessible. |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +Here's an example: |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | + ul.krumo-first {background: url(%url%bg.gif);} |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +TODO |
| 93 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 94 | +You can find the list of stuff that is going to be added to this project in the |
| 95 | +TODO file from this very package. |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +CONTRIBUTION |
| 98 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 99 | +If you download and use and possibly even extend this tool, please let us know. |
| 100 | +Any feedback, even bad, is always welcome and your suggestions are going to be |
| 101 | +considered for our next release. Please use our SourceForge page for that: |
| 102 | + |
| 103 | + http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/krumo/ |
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