How facilitate debugging of FengOffice's PHP code with FirePHP

[waldo2188]

This is a short how-to for use the Mozilla Firefox extension, FirePHP.

Reminder : FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call.

First you need Firefox and the FireBug extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/1843/).
Next, you must install the FirePHP extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/6149/) and download the corresponding PHP classes (http://www.firephp.org/).

Unzip PHP Classes in 'fengOffice/environment/library/FirePHPCore/' directory.
If you use PHP 5 you can delete PHP 4 classes (fb.php4 and FirePHP.class.php4).

Rename the file fb.php to FB.class.php. We rename this file for a better integration in the FengOffice class autoload system.

Edit 'fengOffice/init.php'.
After :

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// Set handle request timer...
if(Env::isDebugging()) {
benchmark_timer_set_marker('Handle request');
} // if
insert this code :

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// Enable FirePHP
if(Env::isDebugging()) {
FB::setEnabled(true);
} // if
Now you can use FirePHP static methods, like :

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FB::log('Log message');
FB::info('Info message');
FB::warn('Warn message');
FB::error('Error message');
Have a nice day!

[franponce87]

Very informative post which will help a lot of people! I myself will try it out soon and see how it works, thanks a lot for your contribution!

Best regards,
Francisco