Print $CI object for debugging

marcus_at_localhost

Hey, I wonder how do you debug Fuel CMS?
I usually use KINT (https://github.com/kint-php/kint) to print variables, objects etc. The nice thing about KINT is, that it also shows me methods and hints. Unfortunately, when I want to output($CI) or even subsets d($CI->fuel), the server runs out of memory. The same happens for var_dump($CI). Why is that and how to achieve, what I described?

admin

FUEL doesn't have it's own debugging function (although it would be a nice addition I think). The $CI object has child objects that have properties that reference the $CI object and so debugging that object can be problematic since it causes and infinite loop (although I thought Kint handled that but perhaps not). There are a couple of homegrown functions found here to help with that:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.print-r.php

marcus_at_localhost

Thanks for hinting Kint depth limit. It works to lower the limit.

In case someone is interested in it:

I installed Kint via composer (so it's available in the framework, see config.php -> $config['composer_autoload']).

Created \fuel\application\helpers\kint_helper.php(enabled it in autoload.php) with the following content

<?php

// Kint Debug Helper
// https://kint-php.github.io/kint/plugins/

//\Kint::$plugins = ['Kint_Parser_Trace','Kint_Parser_Json','Kint_Parser_Color'];
\Kint::$max_depth = 2;
/**
 * ddd() was removed from kint core so we have to create it on our own and alias it in kint
 * @param array ...$v
 */
function ddd(...$v){
    d(...$v);
    exit;
}
\Kint::$aliases[] = 'ddd';

Kint_Parser_Blacklist::$blacklist[] = 'CI_User_agent';
// not sure how to use this. I suppose, Twig can be blacklisted here.
Kint_Parser_Blacklist::$shallow_blacklist[] = 'Psr\Container\ContainerInterface';

$test = [1,[2,[3,[4]]]];
#d($test,json_encode($test),['#000000']);

As much as I love Kint, I think Tracy would be a great addition to fuel cms for exception handling and debugging. What do you think?

https://tracy.nette.org/en/

admin

Thanks for the code example. I believe CI 4 is using that now too:
https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter4