EFirephp enables displaying Yii logs in the FireBug console window.

Requirements

• FireFox
• FireBug (the FireFox extension)
• FirePHP (the FireFox extension)

Installation

• Place the release file under protected/extensions/firephp

Usage

main.php configuration file update:

[...]
// autoloading model and component classes
'import'=>array(
	'application.models.*',
	'application.components.*',
	'application.extensions.firephp.*',
),
[...]
'log'=>array(
	'class'=>'CLogRouter',
	'routes'=>array(
		array(
			'class'=>'CFileLogRoute',
			'levels'=>'error, warning',
		),
		array(
			'class'=>'EFirephp',
			'config'=>array(
				'enabled'=>true,
				'dateFormat'=>'Y/m/d H:i:s',
			),
			'levels'=>'error, warning, trace, profile, info',
		),
	),
),
[...]

Now any log messages with the levels specified will be shown in the FireBug console.

To log your own messages (can help with debugging) you can use:

Yii::log('message', 'level', 'category');
Yii::log('anytext', 'trace'); // Shows the stack trace - the first few entries are useful for Yii
Yii::log('Path to file is invalid: '.$path, 'warning'); // Default category is 'application'
Yii::log(array($variables, $to, $be, $shown, $like, $print_r, $output), 'info', 'app.SiteController.Action'); // Useful for showing array contents, just wrap them in array()