1. Overview
2. Requirements
3. Installation
4. Usage
5. Resources

This extension integrates Yii with Google Chrome extension "PHP Console" and PhpConsole class.

PHP Console allows you to handle PHP errors & excepions, dump variables, execute PHP code remotely and many other things using Google Chrome extension PHP Console and PHP Console server library.

Overview ¶

• See PHP Console presentation video.
• Install Google Chrome extension PHP Console.
• See how it works on live demo page.
• PHP Console extension features and screenshots.
• PHP Console server library features list.

Requirements ¶

• Yii Framework v1.* project
• PHP > 5.3
• Install Google Chrome extension "PHP Console"
• Set output_buffering setting to true in php.ini (optional)

Installation ¶

1. Download php-console Yii extension
2. Copy "/src/extension/phpconsole" to your extensions directory (i.e. /protected/extensions).
3. Copy "/src/vendors/PhpConsole" to your vendors directory (i.e. /protected/vendors).
4. Modify your config file (i.e. /protected/config/main.php)

// ....

	'preload' => array('log'),
	
	'components' => array(

		'log' => array(
			'class' => 'CLogRouter',
			'routes' => array(
				'class' => 'ext.phpconsole.PhpConsoleLogRoute',
				/* Default options:
				'isEnabled' => true,
				'handleErrors' => true,
				'handleExceptions' => true,
				'sourcesBasePath' => $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'],
				'phpConsolePathAlias' => 'application.vendors.PhpConsole.src.PhpConsole',
				'registerHelper' => true,
				'serverEncoding' => null,
				'headersLimit' => null,
				'password' => null,
				'enableSslOnlyMode' => false,
				'ipMasks' => array(),
				'dumperLevelLimit' => 5,
				'dumperItemsCountLimit' => 100,
				'dumperItemSizeLimit' => 5000,
				'dumperDumpSizeLimit' => 500000,
				'dumperDetectCallbacks' => true,
				'detectDumpTraceAndSource' => true,
				'isEvalEnabled' => false,
				*/
			)
		)
	)

    // ...

Usage ¶

Try this code in some controller:

// log using Yii methods
Yii::log('There is some debug message');

// log using PHP Console debug method
PC::debug('Short way to debug directly in PHP Console', 'some,debug,tags');
echo $undefinedVar;

Resources ¶

• php-console Yii extension GitHub repository
• Google Chrome extension "PHP Console" homepage
• PhpConsole server library homepage