After I had upgraded from Firebug 1.2.0b7 to 1.2.0b15, my web apps were no longer throwing any kind of logs into the Firebug console. I'm using the Zend_Log_Writer_Firebug class for that.
Luckily, just earlier today I noticed a new release of Firebug 1.2.0. And with that, FirePHP 0.1.1.2. But now there was a new problem:
["There was a problem writing your data from the Wildfire Plugin http://meta.firephp.org/Wildfire/Structure/FirePHP/FirebugConsole/0.1", Array(4)]
That, of course, wasn't helping any. So I checked the release notes and noticed issue #14, which is a copy of ZF-4020. Since I'm stuck with ZF1.6 RC2 and would rather not pull from the trunk, I figured I'd test to see if I could fix it myself. Followed the code through to Zend/Wildfire/Protocol/JsonStream.php line 203 and replaced $part); with '|' . $part . '|'); Works great!
And I just noticed that ZF1.6RC3 was released. And it includes the fix, of course. Quite a chain reaction. A bug in Firebug's tabWatcher.js gets fixed, causing a refresh issue with FirePHP, which fixes the issue and also adds a workaround for a problem with whitespace disappearing, which requires a new ZF release candidate. All is well at last.
Great summary for the chain of events!
Unfortunately the FirePHP fix was delayed a bit because I was unavailable for a while.
I am working with the Firebug team on a closer integration and a co-testing setup for Firebug 1.3 that will allow me to verify the integration between FirePHP and Firebug before new Firebug versions get released. There is also a unit-testing framework planned for 1.3 which should help a lot in preventing issues like this.
Also wanted to note that ZF1.6RC3 was not released just because of FirePHP/Wildfire. There were a dozen other critical fixes that had to make it into 1.6 but it all was great timing and the FirePHP integration did factor into the decision.
Thanks for stopping by! And indeed, I didn't mean to imply that this issue was the sole reason for RC3, although it does sound that way, now that I'm reading it again.
And thank you for FirePHP/Wildfire, it's become an important part of my tool box.