Re: Printing out or displaying for debugging [message #179840 is a reply to message #179837] |
Tue, 11 December 2012 16:59 |
C
Messages: 24 Registered: January 2012
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I am just a beginner, so I will need help with the actual commands I should use, not necessarily the whole code, but the commands which I should learn to use. Thanks.
On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 6:05:19 PM UTC+2, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 11/12/12 15:59, C wrote:
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>> What is a good way to see the values of a few variables for debugging?
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>> I cannot debug locally. I have to put the code on the server in the
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>> normal Internet site (which does not receive a lot of human visitors),
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>> so it would not hurt to display the values of some variables for a few
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>> minutes while I am debugging.
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> I would write a php function that does three things.
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> (i) checks to see if the browser remote IP address is you, and if it
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> isn't, does nothing - that lets all of your other users off the hook.
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> (ii) adds any error and debugging messages to a big chunk of memory.
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> (iii) RIGHT at the end of you page, calls the function again to
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> *display* the buffer contents in a <div> that overlays everything.
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> An alternative is to create a debug notice area in some empty bit of
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