LGP

Acronym of "Lazy Guinea Pig".

Created by the laziest, LGP is a Drupal library for slackers. Aren't you?

Features

ATM, LGP provides a set of tools to debug Drupal.

• Write given debug message to a temporary file, the LGP file
• Low memory footprint, skip Database bottleneck
• Useful where Devel's dsm() does not works or when you need an alternative debug log, by example: while debugging services.module (instead of Services log) or during hook_init().
• Centralized debug file, LGP file is shared by drupal installations that use same temporary directory

Functions

LGP implements the following functions:

• lgp_print($message): Log $message to LGP file.
• Lazy print: lp($var, $keys_only = FALSE): Log to LGP file in print_r format. Alternatively print keys only (if passed an array as argument) Alias: lfp().
• Lazy dump: ld($var): Log $var to LGP file in var_dump format. Alias: lfd().
• Lazy export: lx($var): Log $var to LGP file in var_export format. Alias: lfx().
• Lazy backtrace: lbt($ignore_args = TRUE): Log backtrace to LGP file, without functions arguments (default behavior see debug_backtrace)

Drush integration

LGP provides the following for drush:

• lgp-console: Console watcher. Shows log of functions: lfp(), lfd() and lfx().
  Alias: lgc
  Usage:

  $ drush lgc #Linux and OS X
  

  Note for **Windows users**: you will need UnixCore tail or Cygwin in order to watch the lgp.log file.

• Print the output of debug functions to stdout (available only from "drush ev"):
  _lp() or _lfp() see lp()
  _ld() or _lfd() see ld()
  _lx() or _lfx() see lx()
  _lbt() see lbt()

  Example:

  $ drush ev "_lp(user_load(1))"

Where is the lgp.log file?

Visit the Status report, there you will find the file path to lgp.log.