In the previous post we went through the features provided by FireSymfony. In this post we are going to see how to install the Firefox Add On and the symfony plugin.

Installing the Symfony plugin is simple - a standard plugin:install command and a bit of tweaking on the factories.yml file to add it to the logging settings. The FireFox extension installs like normal - grab it from here and install like any other extension.

FireSymfony saw the light of day on october last year. One motivation to do it was to integrate two of my favorites web debugging tools, Firebug and the symfony web debug toolbar (SWDT). Also with some fellow developers we were trying to address a problem caused by the SWDT in some of our projects, where the HTML injected by the SWDT was not compatible with our design, making the site looks "broken".

I started hacking some code by reading some tutorials on how to create a Firebug plugin among other resources on the web. [...] Last saturday it became a Mozilla certified add-on, meaning that users don't have to register to download the extension and they will be notified of extension updates.

The tool allows you to directly set debugging information into the Firebug console and can include request variables, user session information, installed PHP extensions and the Symfony install version.