Smarty

[dthought]

Hi everyone!

Probably my biggest feature at the moment would be the ability to have the debug console spit out variables included in child (included) pages.

At the moment, you only get variables for the $smarty->display('blah.tpl') page.

If you subsequently include a file, any new variables defined in there (eg. let's say you send some variables in your include statement, or set some variables via some other means) are not listed in the debug console - a very handy bit of help it would be for debugging, I think (-:

[mohrt]

... and how should this look in the debug console?

[dthought]

In the same way that templates are listed in a sort of heirarchy at the top of the console, I would imagine that variables could be done the same way...

Have the name of the template as a sort of title (in the style of the line that currently says "assigned template variables:"), then its variables follow.

eg.

assigned template variables: mytemplate.tpl
{$variable1} foo
{$variable2} bar

assigned template variables: child.tpl
{$childtplvariable1} dog

assigned template variables: secondchild.tpl
{$secondchildtplvariable1} cat

and so on. Make sense?
(edited to slightly clarify how it could look)

[mohrt]

So spit out all the assigned variables for each template? Typically the majority of variables are global, whereas some are local to a template, or introduced into the parent template or globally on-the-fly. This would make the debug console quite lengthy trying to display everything.

If you want to know what variables are available for a particular template, put {debug} somewhere in that template (like at the bottom). Then a debug table will show up in-line where that tag is placed, showing a snapshot of the currently assigned vars. This will also include any vars assigned within that template before the {debug} call.

Monte

[dthought]

Interesting, I'll have to have a play with that.

Thanks for the tip (-: