Fulvio Notarstefano

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PHP Console allows you to handle PHP errors & exceptions, dump variables, execute PHP code remotely and many other things using <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/php-console/nfhmhhlpfleoednkpnnnkolmclajemef" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Chrome extension PHP Console</a> and <a href="https://github.com/barbushin/php-console" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP Console server library</a>.
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This implementation of PHP Console is a handy tool to make it easier to test on the fly any WordPress specific function or class (including those introduced by your active theme and plugins!) from a terminal and inspect results, catch errors and warnings with complete call stack trace straight from the Chrome JavaScript console. In other words, besides debugging, you can execute PHP or WordPress-specific PHP code straight from the terminal and print PHP variables in Chrome Dev Tools JavaScript console along with your normal JavaScript debugging and testing. Keep everything in one place, without leaving the browser to check for your logs or writing temporary PHP test code on a PHP file and refresh your browser page.
Note: PHP version 5.6.0 or above is required to use this plugin.
For support and pull requests, please refer to <a href="https://github.com/unfulvio/wp-php-console" rel="nofollow ugc">WP PHP Console GitHub repo</a> and read the instructions there – thank you.
<h3>Usage</h3>
After you entered WP PHP Plugin password, your browser address bar should show a yellow “key” icon, which, if clicked, will prompt for the password you have set earlier. 
The “key” icon will change into a “terminal” icon, click on it to open the PHP Console eval & options form.
After entering the correct password, you can use the Eval Terminal in the PHP Console eval & options form and run any PHP code from it, including WordPress’s own functions: enter one or more lines of PHP code in the black Eval terminal screen, press Ctrl+Enter and see the result in Chrome Dev Tools JavaScript console. 
The result includes the output, the return value and the net server execution time.
In your PHP code on the Server, you can call PHP Console debug statements like <code>PC::debug( $var, $tag )</code> to display PHP variables in the JavaScript console and optionally filter selected tags through the PHP Console eval & options form opened from the address bar in your browser.
In the JavaScript console you will see printed any `PC::debug()“ information, PHP errors, warnings, notices with optional stack trace, which will be useful to debug your plugin or theme.

WP PHP Console

Great tool for debugging wordpress plugins. Use it all the time!

Great plugin for debugging

this is what I wanted, does what it should for me

great tool

This plugin is very useful to debug php variable!

And show me stack ! 

Really Thank you !

Thank you very much!

As soon as I realized that Chrome extension is off in incognito mode by default and enabled it, I could enter password and got it to work immediately.

Great work

An implementation of PHP Console as a WordPress plugin. Use Chrome Dev Tools to debug your WordPress installation!

EnglishMike

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Important Note: The recent release of WordPress 2.6 has fixed the disappearing entities bug this plugin was designed to fix, so once you upgrade to WordPress 2.6 please discontinue using this plugin. I may release a new plugin that prevents spaces from being stripped from the beginning of lines sometime in the near future.
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After a few weeks of writing posts on WordPress, I was getting very irritated when all the HTML entities I added to my examples kept being converted into characters — e.g. HTML entities like &gt; &lt; &quot; would convert to > < " — when I saved the post I was working on.
To make matters worse, all the spaces I was using to align my coding examples would disappear when switching between “HTML” mode and “Visual” mode, even if I used the &nbsp; entity.
So, I finally bit the bullet and wrote this little plugin to fix these problems. It does just two things:
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<li>Allows you to enter HTML entities like &gt; &lt; &amp; etc. while in “Visual” mode and they will stay put, even after you save your post.</li>
<li>Allows you to type extra spaces while in “Visual” mode (or &nbsp; in “HTML” mode) and they will stay put too, allowing you to correctly indent code samples, etc. </li>
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If you are writing blog posts with source code or HTML examples, you may find this little plugin helps you avoid a ton of aggravation.
Works with TinyMCE and the TinyMCE Advanced plugin.
Please note, this plugin is a patch for issues with WordPress’s uses of TinyMCE, and not the editor itself.
If you try this plugin and like what you see, or you have questions or problems, feel free to email me at mike@englishmike.net or visit the <a href="http://englishmike.net/tinymceentities-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">TinyMCE Entities Patch Plugin Home Page</a> with your feedback.
(Not tested on any version of WordPress older than 2.5.1. It may work on earlier versions, but I just don’t know for sure. Try it and see. If it doesn’t work simply deactivate the plugin. If it does work, please let me know!!)
<h3>Release Notes version 1.0</h3>
Changes in version 1.0
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<li>This is the initial version of the plugin.</li>
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TinyMCE Entities Patch

Prevent spaces and HTML entities (e.g. &gt; or ') from disappearing when editing posts with TinyMCE.

WP PHP Console vs TinyMCE Entities Patch