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. Enabling the Devel Kint module gives you a dpr() function, which pretty prints variables. Useful during development. Also see similar helpers like dpm(), dvm(). AJAX developers in particular ought to install FirePHP Core from http://www.firephp.org/ and put it in the devel directory. You may use the devel-download Drush command to download the library. If downloading by hand, your path to fb.php should look like libraries/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. DEVEL GENERATE EXTENSIONS ========================= Devel Images Provider [http://drupal.org/project/devel_image_provider] allows to configure external providers for images. 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 run-tests-drush.sh. You may pass in any arguments that are valid for `phpunit`. AUTHOR/MAINTAINER ====================== - Moshe Weitzman <weitzman at tejasa DOT com> http://www.acquia.com - Hans Salvisberg <drupal at salvisberg DOT com> - Pedro Cambra <https://drupal.org/user/122101/contact> http://www.ymbra.com/