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For those not following the PHP development. We backported the DTraces probes from the abandoned PHP 6.0 branch, back to the new trunk PHP 5.3.99-dev. It is called 5.3.99 because the PHP dev community has not decided yet on a version number (5.4 or 6.0).

To compile PHP with DTrace, on Solaris or Mac OS do:

  $ svn co http://svn.php.net/repository/php/php-src/trunk php
  $ cd php
  $ ./buildconf --force
  $ ./configure --enable-dtrace
  $ make

To check if your PHP has DTraces probes enabled, you can check the phpinfo() using

 $ php -i | grep DTrace

or use DTrace directly>

 $ sudo dtrace -ln 'php*:::' -c 'php -m'

88836    php4614               php               dtrace_compile_file compile-file-entry
88837    php4614               php               dtrace_compile_file compile-file-return
88838    php4614               php                        zend_error error
88839    php4614               php  ZEND_CATCH_SPEC_CONST_CV_HANDLER exception-caught
88840    php4614               php     zend_throw_exception_internal exception-thrown
88841    php4614               php           dtrace_execute_internal execute-entry
88842    php4614               php                    dtrace_execute execute-entry
88843    php4614               php           dtrace_execute_internal execute-return
88844    php4614               php                    dtrace_execute execute-return
88845    php4614               php                    dtrace_execute function-entry
88846    php4614               php                    dtrace_execute function-return
88847    php4614               php              php_request_shutdown request-shutdown
88848    php4614               php               php_request_startup request-startup

Have fun with DTrace in PHP.

A few examples will follow in the next days.