First off, I'm not a developer, but a site owner running wordpress. my site has some Amazon affiliate URLS. What is happening is some rogue javascript is running and changing the referral ID's of the HTML code only from a google search specifically (If I load a page directly the HTML doesn't change). Basically I'm trying to figure out how to locate it, I figure that by looking at the html section I can trace what javascript is changing the HTML? With that information maybe I can help find it or pass that on to the hosting company to remove the file.
For example:
in the website shows : https://amazon.com/49684095/?tag=properamazontag
the javascript runs and changes to: https://amazon.com/49684095/?tag=douchebagscammercode
I hope it makes sense.
I have disabled javascript in the browser and confirm that the HTML code doesn't change, so I know it's a javascript issue.
For anyone looking at this with the same issue, what I did was follow this thread Find javascript that is changing DOM element. I went through all the JS changes looking for odd code not associated with a plugin file or theme.
once I found the code, I used a plugin called string locator and searched "everything under WP-content" for the first part of the bad code. From the plugin shows the location of the code (a JS file was added to the theme template) and I then used the same technique to search for the names JS file (in this case called theme.js) and found a php line in the functions.php file that had to be deleted along with the file.
So I want to play with the source code of a page. In this particular example it seems like the webpage is an Angular app (that i dont own) with source maps to *.ts files. The main code seems to all be in a bundle.js.
I want to be able to add console.log() statements to this code and learn more about how this webpage works.
I have tried editing the .ts sources (this doesn't work although I expected that).
I try editing the bundle.js but its so big that it causes my dev tools to crash.
Does anyone know of a VS Code plugin (or something similar) that would let me open the sources locally on my machine, edit them and see the changes reflected on the website.
If not what is the best path forward for being able to edit the local js of this page.
Firefox allows you to add log statements into the code when you're using the Debugger/Sources tab. Just right click the line you care about and then choose Add log. I believe Chrome allows something similar.
I am trying to find the way to debug javascript code inside the php file. I have a lot of javascript code embedded inside the php file.
I can debug php code using netbeans with the help of XDebug. I can also debug javascript separately inside html or js file with browser like chrome or firefox.
What I want is to debug javascript code inside the php file if it is possible. I am sure a lot of people will be using javascript embedded with php file. I don't like it personally, but I have to work it on. I know I can write the code separately in js file and then can debug with browsers, but it's lot of code, take time for the separation.
Can anybody here suggest me a way if it's possible what I am asking.
Debug Javascript in netbeans 7.4 inside PHP project
https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/debugging.html
https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PhpStorm/Debugging+PHP+and+JavaScript+code+at+the+same+time+in+PhpStorm
https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2014/06/debugging-php-and-javascript-code-at-the-same-time/
IMHO, without even looking it up, i don't think that it is (nor should) be feasible.
Here's why:
Your PHP gets processed on the server side, that's when XDebug kicks in and enables you to breakpoint all your PHP code. Then the server output gets to the client, that's when the actual JS is processed inline in the parsed HTML. Which means you would have to intercept the HTML in some way, parse it, detect eventual inlined JS scripts... and set your breakpoint(s) at that time (yes on each run), then output to client, which parses the HTML yet again to render it and process eventual breakpoints. It would be a tedious process and even more tedious to get to work i guess and that is why nobody even tried making an extension for that.
To my knowledge, inlined JS is also a lot harder to debug and i never saw an actual setup that would allow breakpointing embedded tags in a static HTML document directly from the IDE, which would've been somewhat a little easier to achieve than breakpointing JS in PHP...
Your best shot i guess would be to externalise your JS in separate files and only hard code <script src="path/to/your/app.js"></script> in your PHP templates, which indeed would be much more comfortable to work with on the long run anyways.
Then you would be able to breakpoint all the stuff in app.js, plus have an actual front-end architecture, syntax-highlighting, impress your boss, make your life a lot easier, the world a better place, etc.
Also, for reference: How to debug JavaScript code with Netbeans? (answer #45515159)
And read on: https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/webclient/html5-js-support.html
Edit: seems like setting JS breakpoints in static HTML tags is feasible in Visual Code for example -> https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-chrome-debug/issues/122
I don't know if I am late, but, I came across the following website and was able to setup the debugger for Javascript and PHP which supports to debug embedded JavaScript in PHP scripts.
source: https://abcmemo.com/2017/04/20/debug-php-and-javascript-in-visual-studio-code/
The website uses PHP.exe as a web service.
It is also possible to use IIS, Apache or others.
Requirements:
IDE: Visual studio code
Extension: PHP debug
Extension: Debugger for (Chrome, Firefox or Edge)
Xdebug set in php.ini
Extension in browser (optional): PHP xdebug if you want to debug on trigger.
You need to have two debuggers running at the same time one for PHP and one for JavaScrpit.
PHP sample
JavaScript sample
I worked with a lot of wordpress templates where I had to deal with some js inside my php files. Assuming that you can run your code on a server, you can easily debug your output in dev tools in chrome (if using chrome). Chrome also allows for setting of breakpoints so you can go line by line, and since your browser ultimately runs the js, you can monitor your code behavior without dealing with the php. That was my main way of dealing with this issue.
I also recommend separating as much js as possible into separate files in your assets folder. Depending on your project, you rarely have to inline your code, In my opinion it's messy to include a lot of JS right in your php, unless you use onclick="" or onchange="" attributes (which can also be handled with event listeners.
Aside from that, console.log() the crap out of everything.
I helped my self with the following steps if it could help any body else
Note:- If your rendered code is inline specific to java-script then it would hard to debug like this.
Run the required page of your application using browser like chrome, edge etc
Open the inspection page by pressing f12 or (Ctrl+Shift+I), Or you can right click on the page see the option for the inspection and click on it.
Goto sources and double click on the source file(this will be probably your php file).
If code not loaded then reload the page by pressing f5 or Ctrl+R, you will see your java-script code there embedded with the html after rendering, then you can put the break point wherever you want and debug through the browser tools(you can see some buttons there to guide you about debugging like step-over,step-into etc).
You will also see errors there regarding java-script,
I have a project I am working on at work that is ASP.NET in TFS. I have checked out the solution and have made some adjustments to the code behind with no issues. When I try to add JQuery and a Javascript file to the project, it does it fine in Visual Studio 2012. But when rebuilding and running it won't execute the javascript code. It's like it ignores it. When I put breakpoints in the Javascript file I get the message 'The breakpoint will not currently be hit, no symbols have been loaded for this document'. I simply cannot get the web page to acknowlegde either the JS file, or the JQuery file.
(And yes, I have scoured StackOverflow.com and tried all the suggestions mentioned)
Any suggestions appreciated!
I'm using Primefaces 5.1. When I load my web page, go into the Firefox debugger and look into the javascript, I see that it has loaded some javascript (Primefaces.js.jsf to be precise) which is part of Primefaces 5.0 version. Now, I have taken care to delete all the references of 5.0. But still I get the same result.
So, my question is- when a web page is loaded, and we see the javascript files loaded, how do we know where a particular script file is being retrieved from?
P.S: I'm not the one who wrote the code to include this js. it is part of the framework. So, I have no control over where it is being accessed from. All I can do is if I know the path of the file, I can modify it to suit my needs.
I have deleted the history/cache/Temporary files and also loaded the page using Ctrl + F5. Didnt help.
Found out why the project was still referring to PF5.0. The primefaces-5.0.jar still co-existed with primefaces-5.1.jar in the WEB-INF/lib directory of the project residing in the glassfish directory 'glassfish3\glassfish\domains\domain1\eclipseApps'.