README.txt ========== A module containing helper functions for Drupal developers and inquisitive admins. This module can print a log of all database queries for each page request at the bottom of each page. The summary includes how many times each query was executed on a page, and how long each query took. It also offers - a block for running custom PHP on a page - a block for quickly accessing devel pages - a block for masquerading as other users (useful for testing) - reports memory usage at bottom of page - A mail-system class which redirects outbound email to files - more This module is safe to use on a production site. Just be sure to only grant 'access development information' permission to developers. Also a dpr() function is provided, which pretty prints arrays and strings. Useful during development. Many other nice functions like dpm(), dvm(). AJAX developers in particular ought to install FirePHP Core from http://www.firephp.org/ and put it in the devel directory. This happens automatically when you enable via drush. You may also use a drush command to download the library. If downloading by hand, your path to fb.php should look like devel/FirePHPCore/lib/FirePHPCore/fb.php. You can use svn checkout http://firephp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/trunk/Libraries/FirePHPCore. Then you can log php variables to the Firebug console. Is quite useful. Included in this package is also: - devel_node_access module which prints out the node_access records for a given node. Also offers hook_node_access_explain for all node access modules to implement. Handy. - devel_generate.module which bulk creates nodes, users, comment, terms for development Some nifty drush integration ships with devel and devel_generate. See drush help for details. COMPATIBILITY NOTES ================== - Modules that use AHAH may have incompatibility with the query log and other footer info. Consider setting $GLOBALS['devel_shutdown'] = FALSE if you run into any issues. DRUSH UNIT TEST ================== See develDrushTest.php for an example of unit testing of the Drush integration. This uses Drush's own test framework, based on PHPUnit. To run the tests, use phpunit --bootstrap=/path/to/drush/tests/drush_testcase.inc. Note that we must name a file under /tests there. AUTHOR/MAINTAINER ====================== -moshe weitzman http://cyrve.com Hans Salvisberg