Using xdebug or trace seems like a little overkill for many things.

I think this highlights that we are missing some nice flow diagrams for when hooks and actions are taking place when a drupal page is created. 

On Sep 7, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:

You may want to try the trace module http://drupal.org/project/trace

It will show you what hooks are being called, but perhaps not the arguments to the hooks.

For that, you can get xdebug installed, and use an IDE that supports PHP and xdebug tracing.
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