FirePHP-chrome is an extension for Google Chrome to allow the Chrome console to display FirePHP messages.

For more details of FirePHP: http://www.firephp.org/

How to install

This extension uses Chrome's "experimental extensions" so you'll need to enable these in your browser first:

1. Type "chrome://flags/" into Chrome's title bar
2. Find "Experimental Extension APIs" in the list
3. Click "Enable"
4. Restart Chrome

There are 2 ways to install the extension.

Using CRX file:

1. Click on this link: https://github.com/andrewn/firephp-chrome/raw/master/dist/firephp-0.3.0.crx
2. Chrome will warm you about extensions and apps, click "Continue"
3. Chrome will ask you if you want to "Install FirePHP-chrome", click "Install"

From source (if you want to develop the extension):

1. Download or clone the source
2. Open the extensions page via Window -> Extensions
3. Click on "Load unpacked extension"
4. Navigate to the "src/" directory and "Select"

How to use

To use this extension, navigate to the page you want to inspect and:

1. Open the Developer Tools (Wrench -> Tools -> Developer Tools)
2. Click on the "Console" tab
3. Refresh the page

You should now see any FirePHP messages sent from the server in the console output.

Supported types

WARN, LOG, INFO, ERROR, EXCEPTION are the currently supported types.

How it works

A page with the Developer Tools panel open will have a FirePHP request header appended.

The response headers are parsed in a background page, and sent through to a script running on the original page that outputs them to the console.

Adding new types

See the 'actionsToOutputMap' in src/js/bridge.js which is a map of action types "log", "info", "exception" to functions that format and output the info into the page. Add your type here and send me a pull request.

Testing

There's a ruby-based test service that sends headers for each of the supported types. If you add a new type, it would be good if you could change the service to output the correct headers too as this makes testing easier.

Running the test service: $ cd test-service $ bundle install $ bundle exec rackup [2011-10-29 14:40:28] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2011-10-29 14:40:28] INFO ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10) [universal-darwin11.0] [2011-10-29 14:40:28] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=14191 port=9292

You can now visit the test server at http://localhost:9292/

It displays a list of the items being logged and viewing the console should show the same messages in the output.

TODO:

• support more logging types (from here: http://reference.developercompanion.com/Tools/FirePHPCompanion/Run/Examples/)
• remove test service and use developer comapnion examples
• autoupdating