Smarty

[surreal5335]

I have php logic that I need to see the variable values being passed, not to smarty, just inside the classes and setup php files.

It seems that smarty ignores die(), echo, and print_r()... so I am at a loss as to what I should do to debug my server side code.

Smarty is just telling me my variables assigned to smarty in the template_c folder are undefined. So I am trying to find out at what point my data is getting lost in the code.

[mohrt]

A debugger like XDebug or ZendDebugger (and IDE) may be of great help in that area. Then you can step through code and watch variables. Otherwise you can print_r($foo) your variables to the screen when you want to check them?

[surreal5335]

so the print_r() statement does work in my logic files? I have tried but nothing I attempt to view on the screen from my logic files that doesnt go through smarty assignment doesnt show up.

I also read that smarty is designed to ignore such statements

Are there some side notes I should be aware of in order to make my echo's, print_r() and die() functions work? These are my primary form of debugging with php, that and error_reporting() but that one is working for me thankfully.

[mohrt]

before you execute smarty, dump your variables and die right there. it should work, smarty cannot affect anything if you don't use it (?)

[cl]

You should debug your PHP script line-by-line.
I suggest free PHP IDE Codelobster PHP Edition for it.