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[Weston Houghton]

Hey all,

I've been meaning to write a simple debug tracking class for use in my 
own projects. So this week I finally did. I have no clue if anyone else 
would ever use it, or have any interest in looking at it, but I've set 
it up for people to download it if you have any interest. Regardless, I 
would love if people wanted to take a look at it and just give me 
general comments on the code.

http://www.anapraxis.com/os/apxDebug/

What does it do?
It's just a simple tool for logging debug messages from within any 
other php development. Being a MacOS X user for developing and serving, 
I find that many of the nice tools, such as Zend's aren't available for 
real debugging. So I frequently am writing values out to screen for 
debugging. This tool separates them mostly from whatever you are 
working on and let's you classify them, and show/hide groups of them 
when browsing. I've set up a simple online demo, but since it really is 
for development it may be hard to understand without just trying it out 
in your own code.

I've been developing tools for installations on clients intranet 
servers lately too, to where I cannot see in, but they can see out. So 
I have written the tool to both log the debug info to a text file, as 
well as email the logfile to an address through the browser pop-up. 
Right now it only does html emails, but I am working on getting it 
setup to handle plain text and mixed mode as well.

It uses css, dhtml, and javascript for the display so likely requires 
gecko or MSIE 5 or higher. Also, if you are just interested in seeing 
php and javascript work together, it might be a good introduction for 
you, nothing complicated, I just use php to feed in some of the js 
variables.

Anyhow, drop me a line with any questions if you have them, or feature 
requests, I'd love to know if anyone else besides me would actually use 
this thing. :) Oh, and if it just completely screws up for you, let me 
know too. I'd call this a 0.9 beta version, so I'm sure it will find a 
way to surprise me.

Cheers,
Wes