PHP Logs in native console Firefox Developer

Question

I highly prefer the firefox developer inspector than the firebug one.

But is that possible to display PHP logs in the native JS console ?

Thanks :)

Firefox Developer Tools runs on the client-side browser code. PHP runs on the server side and produces HTML for the browser to render. So, this is not possible. — kaustavdm, Jun 04 '15 at 12:14
This can be done using FirePHP and the FireBug Console, so your explanation of why it is not possible is not really true ? — Spi, Jun 04 '15 at 13:04
I thought FirePHP sent logs to the browser, which is generally only a good idea in development environment. In a development environment you can keep the local log file open. — NoBugs, Jun 05 '15 at 02:47
firephp sends logs(info/warning/error/…) via http headers. but there is no module to handle this in native console (firebug is required :/ ) — Asenar, Jun 07 '16 at 09:16

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '17 at 18:51

I just installed Chrome Logger ( github | website ) with Chrome PHP to accomplish this in Chrome since Firefox 50+ broke FirePHP. I then learned that Firefox's web console has been supporting Chrome Logger since v43 (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console/Console_messages#Server).

So in short, yes, you can log PHP variables to the Firefox web console using Chrome PHP. It's this simple:

Download the latest Chrome PHP library: https://github.com/ccampbell/chromephp
Include it in your project (include 'ChromePhp.php';)
Log something in your php script (ChromePhp::log($_MyArray);)
Open Firefox web console and turn on the Server tab (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console/Console_messages#Filtering_by_category)

Hope this helps. I procrastinated upgrading Firefox for a few years before discovering that newer versions had support for this.

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