firep() not sending to General tab

Issue Summary

hi, please do excuse me if this is a FAQ or repost -- i have spent time in the issue queue (*) and this does seem to have come up before, but i'm still not getting good mileage..

i do have the devel (6.x-1.18) and drupalforfirebug (6.x-1.3) modules installed on my drupal system (6.14), and firebug (1.4.3) and drupalforfirebug (0.0.5) firefox add-ons installed on my firefox/linux (3.5.3).

i cannot get firep() to produce anything in the General tab when putting code in either the theme layer (page.tpl.php, etc.) or a .module layer file. i simply get the normal message,

There were no messages sent to the general log. Please use "firep($item, $optional_title)" to output messages to this console.

i can get firep() to produce a message from within the body of a node. That is, when i go to Create Content -> Page and put

<?php firep("hello there from firep"); ?>

into the body (using PHP Input Format), then when i go back and view that simple page in my browser, then the General Tab does show "hello there from firep".

it's probably just something obvious i'm missing -- but let me know if there is any additional information you need.

thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

(*)

• #352836: Got this message: firep($item, $optional_title)
• #434398: firep() Not Sending to General Log During Form Validation
• #506612: firebug not working

et cetera...