[wp-hackers] WP Roadmap Project

[Shane A. Froebel]

Great idea. I thought about doing that also. I'll send you a picture of 
how another problem that I use does this. You might get some ideas. :)

Your Friend,
Shane

Chris wrote:
> I'm currently working building what I hope will be a very valuable 
> tool for many WordPress developers. The tentative name of it is WP 
> Roadmap.
>
> I often get frustrated when I can't find exactly the right action or 
> filter hook to use for a specific task. I'll pick one hook, but it is 
> activated too late. I'll pick another, and of course, it happens way 
> too soon. I thought it would be great if I had a reliable means of 
> tracking what happens in the execution of WordPress from start to 
> finish to build a map of sorts. The Codex is great, but it is never 
> completely accurate, often lags behind in terms of version 
> compatibility, and doesn't accurately portray when events take place 
> in relation to other events.
>
> For this reason, I've decided to create WP Roadmap. The code that I've 
> produced so far can track calls to add_filter, apply_filters, 
> do_action, and do_action_ref_array functions as well as tracking 
> include, include_once, require, and require_once calls. Not only does 
> it track these individual calls, it also stores all the argument data 
> that is passed with these calls and a full backtrace of each call. 
> Each step of the backtrace also includes the function call, arguments, 
> relevant class, source file, and line number. As you can imagine, the 
> backtrace data is extremely large on a single page load, so I'm have a 
> hard time finding out a way to represent this data.
>
> The code and storage containers have the ability to generate roadmaps 
> for specific pages and specific versions. I intend to generate 
> roadmaps for most of the major versions (2.5+) and with a large number 
> of page views for each version.
>
> A quick sample of some of the data that this generates is provided 
> below. Note that this is a very small sample of the total data set for 
> the loading of the main page on 2.6.3 using the default template.
>
> Function
>     Name     Argument Data     Source File     Line Number
> require     ./wp-blog-header.php    
>     index.php     18
> require_once     wp-load.php    
>     wp-blog-header.php     12
> require_once     wp-config.php    
>     wp-load.php     27
> require_once     wp-settings.php    
>     wp-config.php     31
> require_once     wp-includes/wp-db.php    
>     wp-includes/functions.php     2004
> add_filter     pre_term_name     Array ( [0] => strip_tags [1] => 10 
> [2] => 1 )     wp-includes/default-filters.php     20
> add_filter     pre_term_name     Array ( [0] => trim [1] => 10 [2] => 
> 1 ) wp-includes/default-filters.php     21
> add_filter     pre_term_name     Array ( [0] => wp_filter_kses [1] => 
> 10 [2] => 1 )     wp-includes/default-filters.php     22
>
>
> My very early front-end to present this data has the ability to 
> selectively show/hide information based upon the primary function 
> type. I intend to add many filters to make it easy to find the data 
> that people are looking for quickly and easily.
>
> If you are interested in this project or have any 
> suggestions/comments, please let me know. If you've read all of this, 
> thank you for your time.
>
> - Chris Jean
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