Omni (in this case) is short for Omniscient - which is the capacity to know everything there is to know. Quite fitting for a Profiler for Laravel eh?

Omni allows you to see:

• Total execution time
  • Custom "checkpoints", see this section
• Total memory usage
• SQL Query Log
• All variables passed to views

To add Omni to your Laravel application, add the following to your composer.json file:

"sorora/omni" : "dev-master"

Then run composer update or composer install if you have not already installed packages. One final step is needed, add the below to the providers array in app/config/app.php configuration file:

'Sorora\Omni\Providers\OmniServiceProvider',

You will want to run the following command to publish the config to your application, otherwise it will be overwritten in updates.

php artisan config:publish sorora/omni

Set this option to false to disable the profiler. It is true by default.

// Config.php
'profiler' => true

If you wish to disable the profiler during your application, just do:

Config::set('omni::profiler', false);

Note:: This will only disable the output, it will still do it's background listening but will not output it to the browser.

Set this option to false to not pull in jQuery from within the Omni profiler. This is useful if you already have jQuery present on your page requests. Set to true by default.

// Config.php
'jquery' => true

To start a timer, all you need to do is:

Omni::start('my timer key');

To end the timer, simply call the end function like so:

Omni::end('my timer key');

Omni utilizes Laravels built in logging system and captures logged events. To log events, you can do (as you would with laravel) any of these:

Log::debug('Your message here');
Log::info('Your message here');
Log::notice('Your message here');
Log::warning('Your message here');
Log::error('Your message here');
Log::critical('Your message here');
Log::alert('Your message here');
Log::emergency('Your message here');

These are colour coded in the Logs part of the Omni profiler - colours may change in future to more accurately reflect the log type.