Zend Browsers Toolbar - A Great Tool for Debugging / Profiling

In the last few releases of Zend Studio, we also provided the browsers toolbars and toolbars integration as part of the Studio’s features. The toolbars are available for IE and Firefox browsers.

The toolbar support provides the easiest way to debug or profile your website by a touch of a button.
The best example i can think of is by checking the registration mechanism of your website and initializing a debug session from any editor with the relevant GET/POST parameters is not so easy to accomplish. Instead of all this, all the user needs to do is to select the option to debug the next page from the toolbar and by entering the registration information and submitting the form, the debug session with all the relevant parameters will start in Zend Studio immediately.

Same goes for profiling. Go to your site’s home page (the busiest page probably) and click on the profile button. The profiler results will open immediately in Zend Studio.
In order to illustrate this, I’ve decided to create a demo and to show the simplicity and the easiness of using the toolbars for debugging / profiling your website pages.

The demo is available here: http://files.zend.com/videos/browser_toolbars/.

It’s a great tool, start using it!

If you have any comments or ideas for additional demos, please let me know.

Yossi Leon.