<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Chapter 10. Debugging Console</title> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.1"> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Smarty Manual"> <link rel="up" href="smarty.for.designers.html" title="Part II. Smarty For Template Designers"> <link rel="prev" href="config.files.html" title="Chapter 9. Config Files"> <link rel="next" href="smarty.for.programmers.html" title="Part III. Smarty For Programmers"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 10. Debugging Console</th></tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"> <a accesskey="p" href="config.files.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Part II. Smarty For Template Designers</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="smarty.for.programmers.html">Next</a> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> </div> <div class="chapter" title="Chapter 10. Debugging Console"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"> <a name="chapter.debugging.console"></a>Chapter 10. Debugging Console</h2></div></div></div> <p> There is a debugging console included with Smarty. The console informs you of all the <a class="link" href="language.function.include.html" title="{include}">included</a> templates, <a class="link" href="api.assign.html" title="assign()">assigned</a> variables and <a class="link" href="language.config.variables.html" title="Variables loaded from config files">config</a> file variables for the current invocation of the template. A template file named <code class="literal">debug.tpl</code> is included with the distribution of Smarty which controls the formatting of the console. </p> <p> Set <a class="link" href="variable.debugging.html" title="$debugging"><em class="parameter"><code>$debugging</code></em></a> to <code class="constant">TRUE</code> in Smarty, and if needed set <a class="link" href="variable.debug.tpl.html" title="$debug_tpl"> <em class="parameter"><code>$debug_tpl</code></em></a> to the template resource path to <code class="literal">debug.tpl</code> (this is in <a class="link" href="smarty.constants.html#constant.smarty.dir" title="SMARTY_DIR"> <code class="constant">SMARTY_DIR</code></a> by default). When you load the page, a Javascript console window will pop up and give you the names of all the included templates and assigned variables for the current page.</p> <p>To see the available variables for a particular template, see the <a class="link" href="language.function.debug.html" title="{debug}"> <code class="varname">{debug}</code></a> template function. To disable the debugging console, set <a class="link" href="variable.debugging.html" title="$debugging"><em class="parameter"><code>$debugging</code></em></a> to <code class="constant">FALSE</code>. You can also temporarily turn on the debugging console by putting <code class="literal">SMARTY_DEBUG</code> in the URL if you enable this option with <a class="link" href="variable.debugging.ctrl.html" title="$debugging_ctrl"><em class="parameter"><code>$debugging_ctrl</code></em> </a>. </p> <div class="note" title="Technical Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Technical Note</h3> <p> The debugging console does not work when you use the <a class="link" href="api.fetch.html" title="fetch()"><code class="varname">fetch()</code></a> API, only when using <a class="link" href="api.display.html" title="display()"> <code class="varname">display()</code></a>. 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 <code class="literal">debug.tpl</code> template to format the output however you like. Debug data is not cached and <code class="literal">debug.tpl</code> info is not included in the output of the debug console. </p> </div> <div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p> The load times of each template and config file are in seconds, or fractions thereof. </p> </div> <p> See also <a class="link" href="troubleshooting.html" title="Chapter 17. 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