The Joy of FirePHP: A Crash-Course: New Plus Tutorial

The Joy of FirePHP: A Crash-Course: New Premium Tutorial

Simon Harp on Dec 2nd 2009 with 20 comments

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FirePHP is a Firefox plugin and server-side library combination which allows you to send all sorts of juicy info from your web application directly to your browser, much like the console.log() functionality with JavaScript. In this Premium tutorial and companion screencast, we’ll teach you how to get started from the very beginning! Join TUTS Premium.

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By Simon Harp

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Simon is a web entrepreneur and PHP web developer from England. He's been building websites and programming in PHP for over 6 years. He's the founder of FlipStorm. To get by he uses a rocking guitar, his trusty MacBook, and his very understanding wife.You can follow him on Twitter and catch him in Chatrbox from time to time. You'll probably spot his profile pic in random places all over the internets.

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http://talosmedia.net/ PandaMaster
argh, it’s always the interesting ones that are Plus tutorials. As always, I will think about going Plus

Andrew
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

http://www.devwords.com Ben
Where do you get your pizza?

http://spotdex.com/ David Moreen
Hmm… I need to use Firefox more. Firebug is such an amazing tool, for debugging, and editing in real time.
http://davekingsnorth.com Dave
Didn’t even know firephp existed. Hope it saves me as much time as firebug did when I started using it
Stefan
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…

Stefan
sorry, i forgot to use html entities…the correct code for the first line is
print_r(“<pre>”);

http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
Stefan – Well sure – with JavaScript, we can just create an alert box too. This is much more efficient.

http://www.pixelsoul.com pixelsoul
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.
http://www.designfollow.com/ designfollow
great tutorials, thank you.
http://www.smashingbuzz.com Smashing Buzz
firebug make more easier web designers and developers life. thanks
That Guy
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/

http://www.fatlizardmedia.com Juan C Rois
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.

That Guy
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.

http://twitter.com/xrommelx xRommelx
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
http://flipstorm.co.uk/ Simon Hamp
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.

http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
Plus – it also includes a screencast to simplify the learning process!
That Guy
Thats good to hear, screen casts are always nice. If I didn’t already know FirePHP I would consider it, maybe.

Raveren
Demanding payment for a tutorial! Preposterous! Deleting tutsplus from my bookmarks.
gus
Damn tutorial dictators, why you bring the iron curtain on us???
never the less, phpbug is useless for intermediate php users