improvement - need of profiling nested vars

[ichiriac]

Hi,

I need to make some debug and inspect vars, so the simplest way is to do a vardump but it's noisy and disturbs the html, and it's not really simple to read (coz of tree of referenced objects).

Maybe you could add a sort of forp_inspect function that creates a debug structure directly in the current forp_node.

define('DBG_ENABLED', 
  function_exists('forp_start') && (forp_start() || true)
);
function foo() {
   DBG_ENABLED && forp_inspect('$my_var", $my_var);
   ....
}

This structure could be serialized like this :

{
  ...
  "inspect": {
     "$my_var" : {
        "type" : "array",
        "size" : 5,
        "value" : { 
             ... inner list of debug ...
         }
      },
     "$this" : {
        "type": "object",
        "class" : "....object class name",
        "properties" : {
            "foo" : {
                "level": "public",
                "type" ...
            }, 
           "parent": {
               "level" : "private",
               "type": "object",
               "class": "....",
               "reference": true // avoid inspecting referenced objects (too nesting)
           }
        }
     }
   }
}

With the forp GUI the exploration of trees of properties and nested arrays will be much greater than showing all informations expanded like in a var_dump or print_r.

It could also be usefull for debugging functions parameters like you do with the @ProfileCaption annotation but with more details -

@ProfileInspect("$var", 1) will add to the inspector the entry $var with the content of the first parameter.

[aterrien]

I just released a first implementation of forp_inspect.
I plan to add minor features in the next days.

[wojons]

wanted to know if we can get the inspect do run for all the inputs of functions, this would be great so i dont need to support forp and xdebug.

[ichiriac]

this function is now available with forp_inspect by using json_encode(forp_dump()); for output.

Sample code :

forp_start();
forp_inspect('$_SERVER', $_SERVER);
forp_inspect('$_GET', $_GET);
forp_inspect('$_POST', $_POST);
forp_inspect('$_COOKIES', $_COOKIES);
register_shutdown_function(function() {
echo '<script src="http://aterrien.github.io/forp-ui/javascripts/forp.min.js?v2"></script>';
echo '<script>var $f = new forp.Controller(); $f.setStack(';
echo json_encode(forp_dump());
echo ').run();</script>';
});

Work in progress to enable forp_json to output inspect stack

[ichiriac]

I close this inactive thread - see #8