Re: FirePHP Log driver for PEAR::Log package (proposal)

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Laurent Laville <pear@laurent-laville.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Laurent Laville > > <pear@laurent-laville.org> wrote: > > > On my current professional project, I used the FirePHP extension for > > > Firefox > > > [1] to help me to debug my source code. > > > > > > Even if don't use PEAR on my project, I think it could be a good idea to > > > include a such driver for PEAR::Log package. > > > > > > I've made today a prototype of such driver which support all FirePHP > > > features. > > > > > > My question is simple : to share my work with the community, > > > should I wrote a PEPR proposal or just work with Jon Parise to > > > include in its package for a future release ? > > > > Just for the record, Christoph Dorn, primary developer on FirePHP, has > > written a FirePHP log writer for Zend_Log in Zend Framework. Have you > > investigated it, and, if so, how would your approach differ (other than > > the obvious fact that it targets PEAR::Log)? > > I did not have a deep look for Zend_Log in Zend_Framework (and of course > with FirePHP) but approach with PEAR::Log is something equivalent. > > My proposal (read by Jon Parise, who've already contacted me) work as any > other Log drivers. > > Of course if you don't have PEAR::Log available/installed, it's not > necessary to have a look on this new driver. Otherwise, I think this firePHP > driver will give more power than the firebug driver of PEAR::Log > > Don't hesitate to read the roadmap of Christoph Dorn to see what he expect > to add to his driver. I think its marvellous, and certainly a great > knife-tool for developpers Absolutely -- just wanted to make sure you were aware of the other work. Since it's BSD licensed, you can also lift implementation details if you need to. This kind of integration is fantastic; I've been using the FirePHP Zend_Log writer for several projects recently, and it's great as a debugging aid, particularly for XHR requests. > Here are an example : > > <?php > require 'Log.php'; > > $logger = &Log::singleton('firephp', '', 'ident'); > > $logger-> log("Hello World"); > $logger-> log("Log message", null, "Log message label"); > $logger-> log("Info message", PEAR_LOG_INFO, "Info message label"); > $logger-> log("Warning message", PEAR_LOG_WARNING, "Warning message > label"); > $logger-> log("Error message", PEAR_LOG_ERR, "Error message label"); > > function test($Arg1) { > throw new Exception('Test Exception'); > } > try { > test(array('Hello'=> 'World')); > } catch(Exception $e) { > /* Log exception including stack trace & variables */ > $logger-> log($e, PEAR_LOG_ERR); > } > $logger-> log("Backtrace to here", PEAR_LOG_DEBUG, FirePHP::TRACE); > > $logger-> log(array('2 SQL queries took 0.06 seconds', > array( > array('SQL Statement','Time','Result'), > array('SELECT * FROM > Foo','0.02',array('row1','row2')), > array('SELECT * FROM > Bar','0.04',array('row1','row2')) > )), > null, FirePHP::TABLE); > > $logger-> log(apache_request_headers(), PEAR_LOG_DEBUG, "RequestHeaders", > FirePHP::DUMP); > ?> -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney mweierophinney@gmail.com http://weierophinney.net/matthew/