Joomla debugging with FirePHP / Firebug

I won't go into what Firebug is - if you are a web-developer you know what it is and what its good for. However only a few developers know how utilize it with PHP development.

First you'll need a Firefox with installed Firebug and FirePHP.

Now you have a browser that supports PHP debugging. But you'll have to include FirePHP debugging in your script as well. Download FirePHPCore library and include it into your code.

If you are using Joomla you can use a plugin JFirePHP that will include FirePHPCore library into Joomla automatically.