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17 Sep 2008I have been using FireBug for some time now. Although his prime purpose is for JavaScript debugging I use it mostly for fast drilling down to CSS stuff. I just love the possibility to change, delete or add CSS properties on HTML document on the fly. Anyway I like FireBug. In absence of one for all IDE it’s quite decent solution for debugging.
Contrast to JavaScript development I do a lot of PHP development. Sadly to say, I am hugely disappointed to PHP debugging solutions. I know there are few solutions out there like XDebug but they are simply no match to Microsoft’s Visual Studio debugger. Anyhow, a free is a free so be grateful.
Currently I’ve been working on a project that will use CodeIgniter as it’s framework, It’s my first project and my first MVC application from ground up. To make my life easier, I decided to download and install myself an FirePHP extension for Firefox and FirePHP library.
Here are few steps you need to take in order to install FirePHP to work with CodeIgniter
It took me few minutes to figure some of this things out by myself since online documentation that goes with these files does not give step by step instructions.
This walk trough worked for me, so I hope it will work for you as well. If you have any questions, feel free to mail me using Contact menu at the top if the page. I’ll try to answer as soon as possible, no guarantees since I’m quite short on time.
Hope this was helpful.
6 Responses to Setting up FirePHP with CodeIgniter
James
September 17th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
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Lawrence
September 18th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Hey,
Thanks for the tutorial, I have been trying to get firephp working on CI for a little while, it seemed as though the project was abandoned.
lazy fri13th
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
thanx alot. it was very helpful to me.
there was only a small issue when i tried your recipe.
FirePHP.php in libraries folder doesn’t work correctly.
so i change the name to Firephp.php and works fine.
Just An FYI.
Vizor
November 15th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Thank You for tutorial.
abhishek
December 10th, 2008 at 4:25 am
hi…..thanks for the tutorial…i am not able to get this work with codeigniter 1.7 i am get a error regrading the parent controller which need to be changed from
parent::Controller (); to parent::MY_Controller(); in the controller as per the instruction in http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Fire_Ignition/ can u please help me out in this
Julian
March 24th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Thank you for the info.
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