There are two functions to get a backtrace in PHP. debug_backtrace and xdebug_get_function_stack... To get the trace for a fatal error. xdebug_get_function_stack must be used. This utility uses xdebug when necessary and normalizes the results.
Ability to define classes/namespaces to skip over... Useful for when your framework wants to display a trace to the user... without all the internals that got to the point of generating the trace
Utility for getting the surrounding file lines for each frame.
getCallerInfo() utility method to get the calling file/line/function

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