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How to view session details in php using firebug?

I'm trying to figure out I how can do something like:

console.log('<?php print_r($_SESSION); ?>');

To see the results in the console.

console.log('<?php echo serialize($_SESSION); ?>');

does not work either. Is there a way for me to echo the session information in firebug or inspect element in chrome for testing purposes?

Solution

  • You could try this :

    <script>
    console.log(<?php echo json_encode($_SESSION, JSON_HEX_TAG); ?>);
</script>

    No quotes are required. See as well Firebug and Logging.

    [edit, May 2014] Updated the code to be safe against XSS attacks. Always pass JSON_HEX_TAG to json_encode if you're embedding in HTML, or an attacker could inject code into the DOM by having you encode a string like:

    </script><script>alert('Hello!');