Marco's Extended Debug for Joomla

Questo plugin estende le funzionalità di base del plugin Debug distribuito con Joomla, aggiungento diverse informazioni quali il dump delle variabili GPC (get, post, cookie), ildump delle variabili di sessioni, ma, soprattutto, la possibilità di limitare l'invio delle informazioni di debug a determinati IPs o a specifici networks  .

(Versione Italiana: a breve, spiacente)

Extended Debug Info for Joomla!

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Marco's Extended Debug is a partial rewrite of the base System - Debug plugin distributed with Joomla!.
It extends the basic functionality by adding other information such as the dump of GPC variables  (GET, POST, cookies), the dump of the session variable, but, above all, adds the ability to limit sending debug information to specific IPs or networks, so you can use it on production machines. It can also send debug info to: front end only, back end only or to both interfaces.

From version 2.6 Marco's Extended Debug can also log PHP errors, this avoid that php error messages break page layout or block jscript, ajax or jquery. You can also set how many error to log: this avoid 'infinite' html page if the error is in a loop like for, foreach or while!

please note, from PHP site: The following error types cannot be handled with a user defined function: E_ERROR, E_PARSE, E_CORE_ERROR, E_CORE_WARNING, E_COMPILE_ERROR, E_COMPILE_WARNING, and most of E_STRICT raised in the file where set_error_handler() is called.

• Can limit output to single IPs like 192.168.10.2 or entire networks like 192.168.1.0/24 or combinue values
• Can limit output to front end, back end or send it to both
• Dumps requests in $_POST, $_GET, $_COOKIES
• Dumps VALUES in $_SESSIONS
• Dumps remote client info (IP, referres, method)
• Add specific css classes and IDs for better reading (add also css file)
• log php errors (v2.6+)

Note:
It's a developers' plugin.    

Additional Set up

• Side to display information
  side to which send debug information (Both, BackEnd, FrontEnd)
• Display only to specific IP(s):
  comma separed list of IP which should display debug info; you can insert single IPs or networks:  192.168.10.2,192.168.1.0/24 means 192.168.10.2 and ALL IPs from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 (no broadcast, zero by your router config)
  Surely this is one of the most important enhancement
• Display remote client Information
  Display remote address, browser type, referrer, query string and  method (GET, POST)
• Dump NameSpaces
  options are:
  • Get
  • Post
  • Cookie
  • Request
  • Get, Post
  • Get, Post, Request
  • Get, Post, Cookie
Select which superglobal arrays to inspect and dump.
• Display Session vars
  Dumps values in $_SESSIONS array
• Log PHP Errors
  log php errors avoid output messages in the middle of HTML
  Surely this is one of the most important enhancement
• Max error to log
  max error to log before to stop to log this kind of error (usefull for errors in loops)
• Side to display information:
  Send debug info to: front end, back end, both
• Add additional css
  Add a css for formatting. some templates/plugins save js and css in cache for preformance, so REMEMBER to empty /cache dir after enable/modify css

Standard Set up

Please, refer to Joomla! docs for standard settings.

Quick instructions

1. install the plugin, set the same execution order of  'System - debug' default plugin
2. enable it ;)
3. disable   'System - debug' default plugin
4. enable debug in Global Configuration - System
5. on production machine fill the 'Display only to specific IP(s)' field with your IP or network

HISTORY

Version 2.6 (Nov 2nd, 2013)  Joomla! 2.5 release

• PHP Error Logging
  

Version 2.5.1 (Sep 26th, 2013)  Joomla! 2.5 release

• Side selection
  
• Disable CPG
  

Version 2.5.0 (Sep 25th, 2013)  Joomla! 2.5 release

Version 1.5.1 (Sep 5th, 2010)  first release for Joomla! 1.5

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Joomla! 2.5

Joomla! 1.5 (discontinued)