Chapter 10. Debugging Console
There is a debugging console included with Smarty. The console informs you
of all the
included templates,
assigned variables and
config
file variables
for the current invocation of the template. A template named "debug.tpl" is
included with the distribution of Smarty which controls the formatting of
the console. Set
$debugging to true in Smarty, and if needed set
$debug_tpl
to the template resource path for debug.tpl (this is in
SMARTY_DIR by
default.) When you load the page, a javascript console window should pop up
and give you the names of all the included templates and assigned variables
for the current page. To see the available variables for a particular
templates, see the {debug}
template function. To disable the debugging console, set
$debugging to
false. You can also temporarily turn on the debugging console by putting
SMARTY_DEBUG in the URL if you enable this option with $debugging_ctrl.
Technical Note:
The debugging console does not work when you use the
fetch()
API, only when using
display().
It is a set of javascript statements added
to the very bottom of the generated template. If you do not like javascript,
you can edit the debug.tpl template to format the output however you like.
Debug data is not cached and debug.tpl info is not included in the output of
the debug console.
Note:
The load times of each template and config file are in seconds, or
fractions thereof.
See also
troubleshooting,
$error_reporting
and
trigger_error().
