Debug technics

Lister tous les hook appelé par drupal dans drupal 7 includes/modules.inc

• Integrate backtrace to drupal_set_message
  Lullabot post that explain how to backtrace when an error occure http://www.lullabot.com/articles/quick-and-dirty-debugging

• Lister les différents hook appelés Changer la fonction d'invocation des hooks situés includes/module.inc:815:function module_invoke_all($hook) { Code on gist https://gist.github.com/7ae97f626eb1629aaa38

• Lister les appels de fonction (backtrace)

print "<pre>";
print_r(debug_backtrace());
print "</pre>";

To print the calling function without the arguments passsed from function to function

print "<pre>";
print_r(debug_backtrace(DEBUG_BACKTRACE_IGNORE_ARGS));
print "</pre>";

• Debug the user_access function Display the permission string return FALSE

if (!$perm[$account->uid][$string]){print_r($string . '<br>');}

• Recursion in not the end dpm When using devel, it occure that a element is shown as recursion. To see what's inside, make an other dpm with only this sub element key For exemple if writing dpm($form) you see $form['view'] recursion

you can write write dpm($form['view']); to see what's inside