Can FirePHP be configured to tell where it's been called from when it logs?

Question

I'm helping a colleague with a legacy, spaghetti code application. There are thousands of calls in it to $firephp->log, but we're trying to track down a particular one.

Can FirePHP be configured to include, with every log statement, the location it was called from in the code?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 29 '12 at 17:35

FirePHP is itself written in PHP, therefore you can edit the log member function to add the tracing. In original FirePHP.class.php file, function log looks like this:

public function log($Object, $Label=null) {
    return $this->fb($Object, $Label, FirePHP::LOG);
}

If you want to log the call, simply modify this method to be:

public function log($Object, $Label=null) {
    $this->trace($Label);
    return $this->fb($Object, $Label, FirePHP::LOG);
}

P.S. I have an older version of FirePHP on my system, so your code can be slightly different, but the changes would be about the same.

Can FirePHP be configured to tell where it's been called from when it logs?

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