Debug PHP Using Firefox with FirePHP

[profquail]

http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/how-to-debug-php-using-firefox-with-firephp/

[HoneyAndSilicon]

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!

[akirk]

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-...

[lucumo]

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 Ruby/Rails with rails-firephp: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rails-firephp/ Perl in typical fashion with several modules: 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

There's also documentation about the protocol if you need/want to build your own: 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 :-)

[eli]

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

[zmimon]

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.