firephp plugin / Dolphin Plugins

How does one administer plug-ins?  I want to replace the FirePHP plugin (update it to the new beta), but can't figure out how to disable it, or actually any documentation about it.  Can anyone point me to how to use Dolphin Plugins?

Thx,

Tac

FirePHP is an extension to the firebug plug in for firefox. It has nothing to do with dolphin. It's a development tool.

http://www.firephp.org/

oh boy tacman, bro, what chu smoking?

If you look in the plugins directory of your 7.03 dolphin install (and likely others), you'll probably see a firephp directory.

My question is how to use it.  It's already there (albeit outdated), in the dolphin install.  But since there seems to be no access to plugins from the admin dashboard, I'm not sure how to enable it or use it (or at least I can't find it).

I want to use FirePHP to debug/understand a module.  Since it's already installed, I'm sure there's a way to start calling it, so I'm looking for guidance on the plugin architecture.

Or is FirePHP only installed on my system, maybe as the result of installing the profiler module or something like that.  You guys don't have a firephp directory in your /plugins directory?

Tac

I have one in my plugins folder. 7.0.3

It does appear to be related to Profiler, since that's the only place it's referenced.

Alas, Profiler is broken in some cases because it's calling a jQuery function (sortTable) before jQuery is loaded.  I posted that on another thread, and was told the solution was to uninstall Profiler, which isn't really what I want to do.

But it looks like there is a way to get the debug queries in FirePHP rather than (or in addition to?) the main window.

I know everyone thinks their PHP code is self-documenting, but reading through the PHP to see how something works isn't optimal.  I see that BoonEx is now paying for tutorials (http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Write_Tutorials_Help_Community_Get_Paid_) I'm hoping someone will write a Best Practices for Debugging / Developing Dolphin.

It appears that if FirePHP is installed, you can just call FB::log() in the modules, but I can't figure out where / when it's loaded, so sometimes tracing fails because the plugin hasn't been loaded.  Does anyone know when and where plugins are loaded in the initialization?  I see a references to autoLoader, is that documented anywhere?

Tac

I've got it as well. What is it doing in Dolphin?

well i went to look at a fresh D7 install and i didnt see anything in my plugins directory. will continue to search. the firephp is a plugin for firefox, so not certain that it would be something you utilize from within dolphin. i will continue to investigate this and see what i can find out.

user glitch on that one. window wasnt refershing so wasnt seeing anything in plugins, then after i posted realized i was just looking at the cooliris plugin last evening. DUH

i think you have nailed it already though by mentioning that its used by the profiler.

ok my ftp wasnt refreshing or something. i found it. i know what it is now. the profiler module that you can see in your modules, uses the firephp.php classfor debugging and tracing errors. so if you are debugging your site, you set profiler to on and debug_mode_full to on. the firephp class structure for debug mode on dolphin.

so there is nothing for you to do, or update, unless you just want to tinker with it. but then again, we were running a very stale version of Red5 for the longest time.

so good question, but in order to use this its just a part of the debug system that boonex has written for us.