JFirePHP for Joomla 1.6

Short after I wrote an article about using FirePHP for debugging Joomla I got a client that wants to use Joomla 1.6 as CMS platform. JFirePHP is built for Joomla 1.5 so a minor customization was needed.

Joomla 1.6 uses a bit different manifest file than version 1.5 so JFire available here won't work. I rewrote the whole manifest xml file and updated few lines in jfirephp.php file. Otherwise plugin is the same as default JFirePHP available here. I've sent the altered code to Kunena team but until they put everything together you can download the code down bellow.

Thanks to FirePHP team and Kunena team for providing us Joomla plugin!

Download JFirePHP for Joomla 1.6

If you want altered plugin is available for download here:

jfirephp_joomla_1_6.zip

How to use JFirePHP

You install the plugin as any other Joomla extension. Don't forget to enable it afterward. Then you can configure extension, make special look at option to limit JFirePHP functionality to Joomla native debug mode only! Of course you have to install Firebug and FirePHP! Be sure to enable both - FirePHP AND net panel in Firebug!

Now you can use

fb('hello console');

More detail instructions can be found here.