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argh, it’s always the interesting ones that are Plus tutorials. As always, I will think about going Plus
It’s worth it, I was skeptical at first to, but after paying only 9 bucks (cheaper than a pizza) I realized how great of a deal it is, I use my plus account all the time now, it’s really worth it. Great tutorial by the way :D
Where do you get your pizza?
Hmm… I need to use Firefox more. Firebug is such an amazing tool, for debugging, and editing in real time.
Didn’t even know firephp existed. Hope it saves me as much time as firebug did when I started using it
while firebug is, indeed, golden, firephp it’s just something you simply don’t need. whenever you want to see what’s in an array or an object, simply use:
print_r(”);
print_r($array);
// optionally die()
you can even make a function (mine is called “dump”) which does all that. just a thought…
sorry, i forgot to use html entities…the correct code for the first line is
print_r(“<pre>”);
Stefan – Well sure – with JavaScript, we can just create an alert box too. This is much more efficient.
I have had this extension for Firefox and still yet to use it. I should probably look into it again if it is great enough to put a post on here about it.
great tutorials, thank you.
firebug make more easier web designers and developers life. thanks
While I’m sure the tutorial looks nice this is not an original tutorial so why are you charging for it? Google FirePHP and find several tutorials.
example : http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/how-to-debug-php-using-firefox-with-firephp/
It’s not about charging for something that you can find somewhere else for free.
You pay, because you want to support the development community, I’m sure you’d agree that in order to continue providing the FREE tutorials, Nettuts needs to get something in return (to pay for hosting if nothing else).
If nobody was willing to contribute, there would not be a development community at all.
Its called ad revenue, sir. Thats why the others are providing it for free. I’m not denying that the site is good but charging for something that is given out for free makes absolutely no sense. Not only that but they they also make money other ways on their network.
exactly and is a they have so much good tuts, plus or not plus, this site is great
i am sure here are so much content, you used
Thanks for the great response guys. This was my first tutorial :)
@That Guy: If you have a subscription, I urge you to have a read of the tutorial. This isn’t just about using FirePHP in general, it includes some very practical uses for it and hopefully will encourage you to try something new.
I’m hoping to have a more advanced tutorial in future.
Plus – it also includes a screencast to simplify the learning process!
Thats good to hear, screen casts are always nice. If I didn’t already know FirePHP I would consider it, maybe.
Demanding payment for a tutorial! Preposterous! Deleting tutsplus from my bookmarks.
Damn tutorial dictators, why you bring the iron curtain on us???
never the less, phpbug is useless for intermediate php users