How to use FirePHP-Core Dependency

Question

I've added FirePHPCore to my composer.js dependencies and pulled them down, and installed the FirePHP Chrome plugin, but I still can't seem to log to Chrome's console. I've only just started using Laravel and Composer, where previously I was using CodeIgniter and adding FirePHP as a third-party library. What else do you have to do to set up FirePHPCore in Laravel 4? Do I add it to autoload in Composer.json?

Answer 1

Laravel uses Monolog to handle all its logging so you should probably investigate enabling the FirePHPHandler for it in your bootstrap (somewhere like app/filters.php).

App::before(function($request)
{
    // Get an instance of Monolog
    $monolog = Log::getMonolog();
    // Choose FirePHP as the log handler
    $monolog->pushHandler(new \Monolog\Handler\FirePHPHandler());
});

You can then log to it manually like this:

Log::info('info message');
Log::warning('warning message');
Log::error('error message');

Extra reading:

• http://www.codediesel.com/php/debuggin-laravel-with-monolog-and-firephp/
• http://www.laravel-tricks.com/tricks/log-queries-to-firephp-console-with-monolog
• http://www.codediesel.com/php/debuggin-laravel-with-monolog-and-firephp/