Article : Drupal for Firebug: Firebug talking Drupal

Firebug is a hell of a thing and at Chapter Three we use it regularly - as many others do - to analyze and debug our web development work. It can do things like inspect the HTML, manipulate the CSS, execute and debug Javascript, and monitor site performance and download times. It is so great that we wished it spoke Drupal and knew our name - kind of like the cute girl at the dance. Things get a little better when people know your name.

It is in that spirit that that Drupal for Firebug was developed as a way to extend the capabilities of Firebug by mixing in a little Drupal. Drupal for Firebug is both a FireFox Extension and a Drupal Module. 

To celebrate Drupalcon Szeged there are now releases for both Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 available. Get the extension and download the module, check our the test and demonstration site, and watch the drupal magic happen right in your Firebug window:

 

 

With a copy of the module and the Firefox extension installed, a developer can see debug messages, examine the SQL query log (with Devel module), look at how a Drupal page load is handling a site’s users, views, nodes, and forms, and even execute PHP. The goal of the module and extension is to create a framework for centralizing Drupal development and debugging work using power of Firebug. The major features include:

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