PHP Logs in native console Firefox Developer

Question

I highly prefer the firefox developer inspector than the firebug one.

But is that possible to display PHP logs in the native JS console ?

Thanks :)

Answer 1

I just installed Chrome Logger ( github | website ) with Chrome PHP to accomplish this in Chrome since Firefox 50+ broke FirePHP. I then learned that Firefox's web console has been supporting Chrome Logger since v43 (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console/Console_messages#Server).

So in short, yes, you can log PHP variables to the Firefox web console using Chrome PHP. It's this simple:

1. Download the latest Chrome PHP library: https://github.com/ccampbell/chromephp
2. Include it in your project (include 'ChromePhp.php';)
3. Log something in your php script (ChromePhp::log($_MyArray);)
4. Open Firefox web console and turn on the Server tab (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console/Console_messages#Filtering_by_category)

Hope this helps. I procrastinated upgrading Firefox for a few years before discovering that newer versions had support for this.