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You can install Tideways PHP Extension in various ways, it is not necessary to have an account for the Tideways product.

We recommend to use our pre-compiled packages for Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL and MacOS. You can find them on the downloads page.

If you want to compile the extension yourself you can head over to the Github repository and download the source from there. You can install the extension using the usual steps:

$ git clone https://github.com/tideways/php-profiler-extension.git
$ cd php-profiler-extension
$ phpize
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Load the extension in your php.ini with extension=tideways_xhprof.so.

As for integration of Tideways into your application you can use the low-level API to enable and disable the Profiler, much like XHProf worked:

<?php
tideways_xhprof_enable();

// your application code

$data = tideways_xhprof_disable();
file_put_contents(
    sys_get_temp_dir() . "/" . uniqid() . ".yourapp.xhprof",
    serialize($data)
);

This stores the trace in your temporary directory which the default UI uses to look for data. Install the xhprof_lib and xhprof_html directories from this repository into your webfolder and navigate to xhprof_html/index.php to see a list of trace.

If you want to use some improved open-source UIs take a look at the following projects:

• XHGui by Mark Story
• gajus/xhprof.io
• preinheimer/xhprof

Please check each projects installation notes on how to get the respective UIs running.

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