How to Debug Variables in Smarty like in PHP var dump

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I have some variables inside a template and I don t know where I assigned them  I need to know what is inside a particular variable  for instance  say I have a variable in smarty called member  I tried with  debug  but it didn t work  and no popup was shown    How can I output debug smarty variables using something like var dump   inside the templates

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Try out with the Smarty Session     smarty session  debug print var    or     smarty session  print r    To beautify your output  use it between  lt pre gt   lt  pre gt  tags

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You can use  php  tags  Method 1  won t work in Smarty 3 1 or later     php    var    this- gt get template vars  var    var dump  var      php    Method 2     var  print r    Method 3     var  var dump

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try this      Set  debugging  to TRUE in Smarty

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In new Smarty it is    lt pre gt   var dump  variable    lt  pre gt

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This should work     var  print r    or     var  var dump    The   is needed for arrays to make smarty run the modifier against the whole thing  otherwise it does it for each element

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To debug in smarty in prestashop 1 6 x     ddd  variable   - gt  debug and die   ppp  variable   - gt  debug only   An onther usefull debug tag      debug

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If you want something prettier I would advise     lt  php n  data   n   cat   yourvariable  var export true  cat    n  gt     highlight string true    just replace yourvariable by your variable

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In smarty there is built in modifier you could use that by using    single pipeline operator   Like this   varname  print r  will print value as print r  php variable

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variable  debug print var nofilter  and you not need to add   lt pre gt   tags    variable var dump  show you more  but worse formatting  because debug print var not showing private variable in object

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in smarty V3 you can use this   var dump  variable

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For what it s worth  you can do   varname  debug print var  to get a var dump  -esque output for your variable

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just use  debug  in your  tpl and look at your sourcecode

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I prefer to use  lt script gt console log   varname  json encode   lt  script gt  to log to the console

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