Merge pull request #1563 from JesseObrien/docs/profiler

Documenting Profiler

laravel/documentation/contents.md

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 	- [Upgrading Bundles](/docs/bundles#upgrading-bundles)
 - [Class Auto Loading](/docs/loading)
 - [Errors & Logging](/docs/logging)
+- [Profiler](/docs/profiler)
 - [Runtime Configuration](/docs/config)
 - [Examining Requests](/docs/requests)
 - [Generating URLs](/docs/urls)

laravel/documentation/profiler.md

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+# Profiler
+
+## Contents
+- [Enabling the Proiler](#enable)
+- [Logging to the Proiler](#logging)
+- [Timers and Benchmarking](#timers)
+
+<a name="enable"></a>
+## Enabling the Profiler
+
+To enable the profiler, you need to edit **application/config/application.php** and switch the profiler option to **true**.
+
+    'profiler' => true,
+
+This will attach the profiler code to **all** responses coming back from your laravel install.
+
+**Note:** As of the time of this writing a common problem with the profiler being enabled is any requests that return JSON will also include the profiler code, and destroy the JSON syntax in the response.
+
+<a name="logging"></a>
+## Logging
+
+It is possible to use the profiler to the Log viewing portion of the profiler. Throughout your application you can call the logger and have it displayed when the profiler is rendered. 
+
+#### Logging to the profiler:
+
+    Profiler::log('info', 'Log some information to the profiler');
+
+<a name="timers"></a>
+## Timers and Benchmarking
+
+Timing and benchmarking your app is simple with the ```tick()``` function on the profiler. It allows you to set various different timers in your app and will show you their performance when your app ends execution. 
+
+Each timer can have it's own individual name which gives it a timeline. Every timer with the same name is another 'tick' on that timeline. Each timer can also execute a callback on it to perform other operations.
+
+#### Using the generic timer timeline
+
+    Profiler::tick();
+	Profiler::tick();
+
+#### Using multiple named timers with seperate timelines
+
+    Profiler::tick('myTimer');
+	Profiler::tick('nextTimer');
+	Profiler::tick('myTimer');
+	Profiler::tick('nextTimer');
+
+#### Using a named timer with a callback
+    Profiler::tick('myTimer', function($timers) {
+	    echo "I'm inside the timer callback!"; 
+	});