Plugin triggers incorrect time logs in WakaTime

[JaZo]

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Describe the bug

I use WakaTime to track the time I work on different projects. It keeps track of which files I have opened and for how long. But, it also tracks time for .ddev/xhprof/xhprof_prepend.php, which I never open.

N.B. I don't know for sure if this is a bug in this plugin or in the WakaTime plugin.

Steps to reproduce

1. Make sure you have a (free) WakaTime account;
2. Install (and configure) WakaTime plugin;
3. Work on a project;
4. Go to your WakaTime dashboard;
5. See it tracked time for xhprof_prepend.php.

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[nico-loeber]

Hey @JaZo, The Plugin does access some files in the background, like the .ddev/config.yaml and the .ddev/docker-compose-full.yaml. The xhprof_prepend.php is none of them. If you search for this string in this plugin you won't get any hit. So even if your time tracking plugin is tracking background access to files, which I would concider a bug, it is not the ddev plugin that is executing this file access.

It's possible that PHPStorm does internally access some of the files listed in your screenshot, the _ide_helper.php might be the mounted file phpstorm is using to detect the php version of the container and if xdebug is present.

In case your issue appears only with this plugin, check whether your issue still exists with the plugin disabled, but using the interpreters and settings configured by the plugin. I would guess that your issue still exists, even with the plugin disabled.

Another thing you can try is to disable the automatic configuration of the php interpreter in the plugin settings.

Hope this helps you in some way...

[JaZo]

Thanks for your elaborate response! I've disabled the plugin for now and I'll see what comes up in the time tracker.

[JaZo]

I've had this plugin disabled for a week now, but kept using the interpreters and settings configured by this plugin. I haven't seen any entry for xhprof_prepend.php in the time tracker right from the moment I disabled it. I'll re-enable the plugin now, but disable the automatic configuration of the php interpreter in the plugin settings like you suggested. Let's see what happens then!

[nico-loeber]

@JaZo, the xhprof_prepend.php file is located in the .ddev/xhprof directory. I didn't even know it is part of DDEV. I thought it might be a helper file used by PHPStorm internally. Definetly nothing the plugin works with.

[rfay]

To understand xhprof_prepend.php, see https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/latest/users/debugging-profiling/xhprof-profiling/

[JaZo]

FWIW: I ended up excluding this file in the WakaTime config ($WAKATIME_HOME/.wakatime.cfg):

[settings]
exclude =
    \.ddev\/xhprof\/xhprof_prepend\.php$