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The package includes the latest distribution of FirePHP. When you enable FirePHP in the admin control panel under the Dev tools option, you can now use the FirePHP functionality in your plugins. Sometimes coders remember to turn off the functionality later, but forget to remove all of the FirePHP calls. A mock FB class is created to handle this - it basically accepts any method call and logs an error in the error log that you still have that line in there.

Turn off View Caching

Normally, you have to either run the update.php script or enable/disable your plugin. During development, this got super irritating. Instead, enable this option. It will make the site run a bit slower, but you won’t have to keep enabling/disabling the plugin when you add new views.

Display Errors

By default, Elgg does not display errors by a setting in the .htaccess file. This allows us to turn back on error display without editing the Elgg core install.

Other Useful Dev Settings

I always forgot where simple cache options were. I copied the setting to the plugin as well. It basically does the same thing as under site admin. I find it useful to have all of these settings in one place.

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vazco

Aaron, what is the difference in comparison to the previous version?

vazco 317 days ago

Aaron Saray

I added the Display Errors setting - and I changed the way the settings are stored - I was storing the plugin settings globally on the ElggSite object instead of with plugin settings. Oops! A change log is included.

Aaron Saray 317 days ago

jak

very nice work thanks alot

jak 317 days ago

Maximus Marius

very nice work , thx

@Aaron : see plugin for drupal,mayby for inspiration

http://drupal.org/project/devel

http://cyrve.com/screenshots/devel_theme_snap-20080113-205127.jpg

If i use this plugin i can select element on my page and "devel" can display information about selected element. In elgg it is not easy find place in code where i see it on web page :(

Maximus Marius 317 days ago

Aaron Saray

Hey - thanks for the comments.

I did look at the functionality of that plugin as well as the functionality in Elgg. I've only been working with Elgg for about 2 months now (PHP for 8 years though!) - so it may take me a little bit of time to find ways to unobtrusively get these statistics from the install without modifying the Elgg Core :)

Aaron Saray 316 days ago

Stanley Agbonifo

Hello all, i'm new here and about to setup a personal site using elgg, i will need assistance to do some basic changes and also i'm interested in this kind of theme ( http://www.theatregig.com/ ).

Maybe i might just change it to personal photos and also have some pages that visitors cab browse freely even without loging or registering with the site.

Thank you in advance, is the theme a default custom that i can find and download fom elgg site?

Thank you all for your contribution in advance.

Stanley Agbonifo 316 days ago

Cash

@stanley - I think you posted in the wrong place. Try the Elgg users google group or the one of the groups on this site like this one: http://community.elgg.org/pg/groups/15815/general-discussion/

Cash 316 days ago