How can I write to the console in PHP?

php debugging printing console
Labeeb Panampullan picture Labeeb Panampullan · Dec 1, 2010 · Viewed 1.2M times · Source

Is it possible write a string or log into the console?

What I mean

Just like in JSP, if we print something like system.out.println("some"), it will be there at the console, not at a page.

Answer

Senador picture Senador · Nov 22, 2013

Or you use the trick from PHP Debug to console.

First you need a little PHP helper function

function debug_to_console($data) {
    $output = $data;
    if (is_array($output))
        $output = implode(',', $output);

    echo "<script>console.log('Debug Objects: " . $output . "' );</script>";
}

Then you can use it like this:

debug_to_console("Test");

This will create an output like this:

Debug Objects: Test

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