Frog - A new way to debug in PHP

There are situations where you want to show information of variables in PHP. While print_r, var_dump and var_export are common functions that you can use, they either output directly in your app which might affects the appearance or interrupt the process when using with die. It's even harder to debug when you work with Ajax or API.

Until Frog!

Frog creates a socket that always listen to debug requests and show the information about the variables it receives. It doesn't interrupt your process or output anything in your app. Instead it outputs data in the terminal and (optional) browser.

Features

• Simple
• Supports syntax highligting when viewing the data from the browser
• Supports viewing debug data in the terminal

Installation

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/rilwis/frog.git

Install the dependedencies with Composer

composer install

Start the socket server

php server.php

If you put Frog folder inside Lavarel Valet or inside any localhost, you can open it in the browser at http://frog.test (with Laravel Valet) or http://localhost/frog/public/ (if you put Frog in your document root of localhost).

After that, Frog will listen to 1503 on 127.0.0.1. Whenever you connect via socket and send data to Frog, it will display the data in the terminal.

If you open the browser, the debug info is automatically appears in the browser (without refreshing).

Sending data to Frog

Currently, we support WordPress. To send debug data from WordPress to Frog, please see frog-wp repo.