## ecco - the console.log() for PHP
##### An IntelliJ/PHPStorm Live Template
---
- Go to the Preferences => Editor => Live Templates
- Select PHP and add a new live template
- Set "ecco" as abbreviation
- Add to following:
    ```php
    echo "<script>console.$TYPE$('$FILE$ ($LINE$)', ' ==> $TITLE$: ', ".json_encode([$PARAMS$]).");</script>";
    $END$
    ```
- Click on "Edit Variables" and add the following into the expressions column:

    | Name | Expression | Default value |Skip if defined
    | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ |
    | TYPE |  | "log" |
    | FILE | __fileName()__ |  | ✓
    | LINE | __lineNumber()__ |  | ✓
    | TITLE |  |  |
    | PARAMS |  |  |

- Click on define and set to PHP
- Apply and have fun

It can also be used as an HTML Live Template surrounded by php tag like this:
```php
<?php echo "<script>console.$TYPE$('$FILE$ ($LINE$)', ' ==> $TITLE$: ', ".json_encode([$PARAMS$]).");</script>"; ?>
$END$
```

You can pass multiple comma separated variables, as it gets encoded as an array.

The default console output will be log, but as it's set as a variable you can fastly change it to other types (like: table, error, info, warn). For displaying data in console.table() you need to pass only the pure data like this, or create another live template for it, an "eccoT" i.e.:
```php
echo "<script>console.table(" . json_encode($PARAMS$) . ");</script>";
```

It turned out to be an ideal and fast way to debug in frameworks like WordPress with php file output.