Magento Debugging Environment

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I looked for ideas on setting up a Magento development environment when we first started using it for our site last year. I didn't find anything that work really well, so I stayed with var_dump'ing using the log files.

Now that Magento has another year under its belt and several hundred more developers I was wondering if anyone has found a better solution for debugging Magento.

We use Eclipse as our development environment. We tried a pre-2.0 release of PDT with the Zend Debugger and didn't have much luck.

Has anyone used Zend Server CE?

spdaly
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Manos Dilaverakis · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-02 10:07:37Z

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How about using FirePHP?

http://ajzele.net/utilize-firebug-and-firephp-to-speed-up-magento-development

It made my life a hell of a lot easier.

edited Nov 2, 2010 at 10:07

answered Nov 23, 2009 at 15:42

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spdaly Over a year ago

I'm giving this the "Answer Flag" because of the effort/reward of getting Firephp up and running. I am going to deep dive the xDebug environment a try when I get some time.

Dimitrios Mistriotis Over a year ago

Hi, I tried it today and the link is broken, any alternatives?

Dimitrios Mistriotis Over a year ago

Some Comments: Fire php should be enabled (of course) and the site you want to debug from Firephp (blue bug) -> Allowed sites menu. Also after copying the function some apostrophe (`) characters should become double quotes("). Thanx!

Alana Storm · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-06 22:33:04Z

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I use a combination of var_dump with xDebug and Magento's Mage::Log method. Mage::Log is particularly nice, as it'll do some auto-expanding and pretty printing of objects if you pass them in (I'm not sure if that's the logger, or just Magento's __toString implementation).

If I'm on my local development box I use Console.app to keep an eye on the log file, otherwise it's a simple

tail -f /path/to/log/file

That combined with some custom modules I've built for debugging the config and layout keep me happy. (although I prefer a light weight text editor toolchain vs. the One True IDE tool chain, so your results may vary)

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answered Nov 17, 2009 at 23:10

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spdaly Over a year ago

Do you MAMP or other "all-in-one" AMP stack? I use MAMP, but will switch if it's easier to setup xDebug.

Alana Storm Over a year ago

The Zend Framework is just a PHP Library, xDebug plays fine with it (you might be thinking of the Zend Platform)

Greg · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-18 07:32:00Z

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logging $object->getData() rather than the $object itself is normally more useful, and everything built into Magento has it as a method (everything extends Varien_Object)

answered Nov 18, 2009 at 7:32

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aland · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-18 13:06:10Z

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$object->debug() is often quite helpful too, although it doesn't exist on all objects. Here are my most commonly logged statements:

Mage::log( $object->debug() )
Mage::log( $object->getData() )
Mage::log( get_class($object) )           # name of class
Mage::log( get_class_methods($object) )   # methods of class

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tomcat23 Over a year ago

I used your tip to plug krumo() in, and found that I got the items I need off the object by using get_object_vars().

clockworkgeek · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-02 12:27:56Z

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I also use FirePHP but find this extension easier.

answered Nov 2, 2010 at 12:27

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Mario · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-09 19:02:07Z

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Give it a try to Magneto-Debug: https://github.com/madalinoprea/magneto-debug (only for dev environments).

Video doesn't contain features added in the latest version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqvgrmebcu4 - display layout updates from DB - display blocks' rendering time

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Mufaddal · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-27 14:39:34Z

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NuSphere is also good debugger for magento here is link NuSphere

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