Re: [SMARTY-DEV] DEBUG console feature

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:52:42AM -0600, Monte Ohrt wrote: > This is a feature that has come up in the past but has never been > implemented. I thought I'd run the idea by the dev list before doing > anything. > > Right now you can bring up the debug console by putting SMARTY_DEBUG > somewhere in the URL. Sometimes it is not possible to bring up the debug > console in this fashion, such as on the results to a form post. > > One way to remedy this is adding the capability to enable/disable the > debug console for the entire browser session. So maybe something like: > > http://www.foo.com/foobar.php?SMARTY_DEBUG=on > http://www.foo.com/foobar.php?SMARTY_DEBUG=off > > Basically this would set a SMARTY_DEBUG cookie on the browser and then > that value would be used throughout the session to determine if the > console shows up. > > My only reservation about this is that it starts a session, which means > it may have to output an HTTP header to the browser. I don't know if it > is smarty's place to be messing with sessions. > > Thoughts? you don't need to deal with sessions for that. you just need set_cookie() and the $_COOKIE-array. smarty should not touch anything session-related. it's too likely to interfere with the application here. > Monte