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 file 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 to debug.tpl (this is in SMARTY_DIR 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.

To see the available variables for a particular template, 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.

> 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.