php-Console with Chrome and WordPress

Google Browser Chrome and their Chromium project are becoming more popular. Initially it was the speed of Chrome, which made it so popular but now also the extensions are getting in the focus of the users. Nowadays the extension market of Chrome is full of very useful extensions. Of course there are also many enhancements in the context of web development that have helped Firefox to fame.

In the field of PHP development, I’ve always looked at several solutions, played with different options and in the end I’m sitting in front of a browser with IDE, XDebug or some of my own extensions. In Firefox I have used FirePHP in various areas, more information about it can be found in this article. Alternatively I also wrote about the debugConsole. Therefore it was natural to browse for a solution in the environment of Chromium. You will be able to find some interesting topics about it and I would like to introduce php-console and show how to integrate it in WordPress via Plugin.

PHP Console is extension for Lagger and class PhpConsole, that displays PHP errors/debug messages in Google Chrome console and in notification popups.

This statement says it all, after integration of the class you can see nice results. Via Plugin I solved to include the class, which can also included manually at the required spot of the relevant files.

You can check out all the features of the extension at the project site, documentation and download are also available on the project site.

Here are some insights of the output and maybe it makes you want to test it or even more.

In the first screenshot you see the ouput of the PHP errors, which are shown in the console. You can also get the results after loading the page as a popup, see last screenshot. Therefore are settings of the extension via context menu available.

Alternatively an output in log, which I created explicitly as an example via Plugin. So it makes it possible to control the output.

In the last screenshot a complete overview, including a popup – you have a nice overview of all PHP messages so you won’t forget anyhting while developing.

Here is my little Plugin (alternatively at Github for download including all files and folders), whereas I put the class PhpConsole.php of the php-Console in the folder inc. The output in log of the console will be controlled via the function debug(); It is possible to provide a name so you can read the analysis easier. This Plugin is also compatible to my php web hosting, if you’ll ask.

php-console - Google Chrome extension for displaying PHP errors/exceptions/debug messages in browser console or notification popups
Author: Frank Bültge
Version: 0.0.1
Author URI: http://bueltge.de/
Donate URI: http://bueltge.de/wunschliste/
License: GNU v3
Last change: 29.03.2011
*/ 

/* load php-console functionality */
require_once('inc/PhpConsole.php');
PhpConsole::start( TRUE, TRUE, dirname(__FILE__) );

class Wp_Php_Console {
	
	public function __construct() {
		
		$this->messages();
		
		$this->get_contents( 'GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE' );
	}
	
	public function messages() {
		global $wpdb, $pagenow;
		
		debug( $pagenow, 'Var Pagenow' );
		$sql = "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->options";
		debug( $sql, 'sql-options' );
	}
	
	public function get_contents( $string ) {
		
		$content = file_get_contents( '../license.txt', NULL, NULL, 0, 100 );
		$pos = strpos( $content, $string );
		
		debug( $pos , 'Position' );
		if ( ! $pos )
			debug( $content, 'Content' );
	}
}
new Wp_Php_Console();

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