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Saturday, September 05, 2009

Formaldehyde - Ajax PHP Error Debugger

I am proud to announce my last Web 2.Next creation, Formaldehyde, the most simple, lightweight, scalable, and complete (for its simplicity) Ajax and PHP Error Debugger.
I described everything in its dedicated Google Code Project Page, but just to summarize without many other words, this is the common deployment situation:


while this is what's up with a single formaldehyde.php file inclusion:


I hope you will like it, can't wait for some comment :geek:

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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous05 September, 2009 23:13

    This is great for the devs that do not use FirePHP.

    I hook my custom functions with FirePHP log statements as the php error handlers and voila.

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  2. Andrea Giammarchi06 September, 2009 00:04

    I have updated the Wiki section right now, and you may be interested into Formaldehyde VS FirePHP page ;)

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  3. sull07 September, 2009 06:55

    i am going to use this since it's always been something i wanted natively in firebug and liveheaders. thanks!!

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  4. Doru Moisa10 September, 2009 15:00

    I've done something similar a while ago, and I used it for some personal projects. My version injects some javascript code in the response, code that calls FB's console.something().
    I've put it on my home server here:
    http://doru.homeunix.org/php/debugger/index.php
    If you find something usefull inthere, feel free to use it.

    Cheers.
    Doru Moisa

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  5. Andrea Giammarchi10 September, 2009 15:04

    Formaldehyde is not related to FireBug, it's client side agnostic, and being created mainly for Ajax interactions, it would not make sense to inject anything in the page.

    Thanks in any case and you feel free to use whatever part of Formaldehyde you need.

    P.S. this evening I will uploade a cross-browser client side script able to make Formaldehyde easy to implement and zero config whatever browser we have, logging included.

    Regards

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  6. Marian Kostadinov10 September, 2009 19:38

    Nice job!
    The only drawback for me is that due to the PHP4 support, it is not implemented in a single class with some private or protected methods. The rest of the things are just great!

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  7. Andrea Giammarchi10 September, 2009 21:21

    Marian, there is nothing more protected than a static variabile inside a function, since you cannot even try to extend it and access to its static var.
    Moreover, you cannot redefine a function.
    In few words, class means double code maintain for zero benefits, being formaldehyde zero config and PHP still procedural. Thanks in any case, regards.

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  8. sameer14 September, 2009 06:51

    real nice and simple!

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  9. web design company india15 September, 2009 11:14

    Its highly informative. I would be visiting your blog hereafter regularly to gather valuable information.

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  10. Allogarage17 September, 2009 23:09

    The perfect tool for me!

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