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Debug PHP Using Firefox with FirePHP

24 points by profquail 17y ago

zmimon 17y ago
Bad submission title (I know it's same as the title of the page, but they're both bad). Outputting log statements is not debugging. Well, perhaps for PHP programmers it is due to the pathetic state of debuggers for PHP, but for anyone using a decent language it isn't.
HoneyAndSilicon 17y ago
FirePHP offers not only ability to monitor errors in log, but also displays other information as a script progresses and dumps value of an array when desired. In addition you can turn on/off all its reporting at with one statement at beginning of code. Quite handy for use in PHP development - or in understanding code you inherit from someone else. Works for me!
lucumo 17y ago
FirePHP is absolutely great. Even better is that multiple languages are getting libraries for the protocol underlying FirePHP: Python with firepy: http://code.google.com/p/firepy/wiki/Documentation http://code.google.com/p/firepy/wiki/Documentation Ruby/Rails with rails-firephp: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rails-firephp/ http://rubyforge.org/projects/rails-firephp/ Perl in typical fashion with several modules: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=FirePHP&mode=all http://search.cpan.org/search?query=FirePHP&mode=all There's even a patch for Apache's mod_rewrite: http://www.firephp.org/Wiki/Libraries/ModRewrite http://www.firephp.org/Wiki/Libraries/ModRewrite There's also documentation about the protocol if you need/want to build your own: http://www.firephp.org/Wiki/Reference/Protocol http://www.firephp.org/Wiki/Reference/Protocol I find it a very useful development aid. I'm just hoping more browsers (well, my preferred browser) start having something that can interpret the FirePHP stuff :-)
akirk 17y ago
I like the combination of Xdebug and MacGDBp on OS X quite a bit, as I blogged here: http://alexander.kirk.at/2008/12/26/debugging-php-on-mac-os-x/ http://alexander.kirk.at/2008/12/26/debugging-php-on-mac-os-...
eli 17y ago
Looks neat, but if I'm going to go through the trouble of setting up a PHP IDE, I want it to have breakpoints.

24 points by profquail 17y ago

Bad submission title (I know it's same as the title of the page, but they're both bad). Outputting log statements is not debugging. Well, perhaps for PHP programmers it is due to the pathetic state of debuggers for PHP, but for anyone using a decent language it isn't.

HoneyAndSilicon 17y ago

FirePHP offers not only ability to monitor errors in log, but also displays other information as a script progresses and dumps value of an array when desired. In addition you can turn on/off all its reporting at with one statement at beginning of code. Quite handy for use in PHP development - or in understanding code you inherit from someone else. Works for me!

lucumo 17y ago

FirePHP is absolutely great. Even better is that multiple languages are getting libraries for the protocol underlying FirePHP: Python with firepy: http://code.google.com/p/firepy/wiki/Documentation http://code.google.com/p/firepy/wiki/Documentation Ruby/Rails with rails-firephp: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rails-firephp/ http://rubyforge.org/projects/rails-firephp/ Perl in typical fashion with several modules: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=FirePHP&mode=all http://search.cpan.org/search?query=FirePHP&mode=all There's even a patch for Apache's mod_rewrite: http://www.firephp.org/Wiki/Libraries/ModRewrite http://www.firephp.org/Wiki/Libraries/ModRewrite There's also documentation about the protocol if you need/want to build your own: http://www.firephp.org/Wiki/Reference/Protocol http://www.firephp.org/Wiki/Reference/Protocol I find it a very useful development aid. I'm just hoping more browsers (well, my preferred browser) start having something that can interpret the FirePHP stuff :-)

akirk 17y ago

I like the combination of Xdebug and MacGDBp on OS X quite a bit, as I blogged here: http://alexander.kirk.at/2008/12/26/debugging-php-on-mac-os-x/ http://alexander.kirk.at/2008/12/26/debugging-php-on-mac-os-...

eli 17y ago

Looks neat, but if I'm going to go through the trouble of setting up a PHP IDE, I want it to have breakpoints.