Bay Area Drupal Camp

Kent will step through the Visualize Backtrace Drupal module that plots a flowchart of all Drupal function calls that are made for a given page load. This tool can help demystify the Drupal API to both beginning and advanced programmers and themers. We’ll also have a brainstorm session to see how it could be used to create better visual documentation — like high-level flowcharts — that can make the Drupal learning curve a lot less painful.

Watch this Screencast Demo of the Visual Backtrace module.
Flash version

This effort was started because I found it easy to get lost while attempting to step through the Drupal code in a debugger, and I wanted an overall roadmap for which Drupal functions were being called, in what order and in what relation to other functions in a bigger gestalt.