14 DAY TRIAL // Symfony's debug toolbar has an iconic look for any PHP developer that ever needed help in smoothing out some of the wrinkles in their code.
First added to the Symfony framework in 2005 with the 1.x branch, the toolbar suffered its first major redesign when version 2.0 was released.
That upgrade added a lot more information which developers could use in debugging their applications.
Since Symfony is nearing version 3.0, expected to be the biggest release in the framework's history, the team in charge of its development is putting a new version of the debug toolbar out with version 2.8, to avoid disheartening its userbase with too many changes to their beloved product in one single release.
Less data will be shown in the debug toolbar, only the relevant information
Visually, the new toolbar features a classic flat look, it's now of a dark grey instead of white, and, at a first glance, it will present less information than its previous versions.
The information is still in the toolbar, only now users will have to navigate its menus and floating panels to discover it.
This was achieved by hiding profiler details that were not present on the page. So if you don't see the AJAX requests tab, don't worry. It only means no AJAX requests were used on the page, so there's no need to show the tab.
This is a good idea from a visual standpoint, since the toolbar will be less intrusive in the page design, and it will also leave more space for other modules to add their own toolbars and panels later on.
Last but not least, the way errors, warnings, and success messages are shown has been altered as well, the new debug toolbar changing the background color of the profiler tab entirely, instead of showing a tiny icon next to the tab in question.
