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Developing with Symphony using the Firebug console

Symphony provides powerful debugging and performance profiling pages by appending various URL parameters to pages. No longer. Firebug is all you need.

With some magic from the FirePHP library, Symphony development just got a whole lot easier. Instead of having to append ?debug or ?profile to the end of a URL to view debug XML and performance profiles, you can now have this information sent directly to your Firebug console!

My Firebug Profiler extension provides:

Firebug Profiler source on Github

Firebug Profiler
Firebug Profiler

Comments

Max Wheeler

This really is fantastic, Nick. At the very least it’ll save me countless hours changing <form> elements to point to ?debug.

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