Adding to link urls

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July 18th, 2012, 07:42 PM

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Adding to link urls

I wish to debug my JS on IE browsers. To do so, thinking of using fire-bug light. So, I want to add the following on my site. I have one entry point, so it will be easy.

PHP Code:


		
			
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://getfirebug.com/firebug-lite-debug.js"></script>

Now, don't want it always to be included, only when I enter debug mode. To do so, I will enter the url http://mysite.com?data=whatever&debug=123.

My PHP script will then check if $_GET['debug']==123, and if so, add the <script>.

Now, when I click an internal link on my site, I want to include debug=123 in the link. Looks like I have several options:

On every internal link, include PHP to add it. Kind of a pain, but not impossible.
Send the entire output to an ob_buffer, and parse it to add it. Seems like a pain as well, but I typically do send my output to a buffer first so maybe okay.
Use some sort of .htaccess script. Would rather not because I always forget when I do so.
Use a session to save it. Problem is hard to exist debug mode.
Something better?

Any suggestions? Thanks

July 18th, 2012, 08:27 PM

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Any suggestions?

A cookie.

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July 18th, 2012, 08:52 PM

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Wouldn't a cookie be the same as a session?

July 18th, 2012, 09:53 PM

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Basically, but cookies are easier to manage. Like you can set them on client-side.

July 19th, 2012, 03:55 AM

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PHP Code:


		
			
//

if($_GET['debug'] == 'mySecret') {

    setcookie("debug","mySecret",(time()+(30*24*60*60)));    //set for a month

    $loadDebug = true;

}



if($_GET['clearDebug'] == 'true') {

    setcookie("debug","mySecret",(time()-(3600)));    //delete by making cookie expire an hour ago

    $loadDebug = false;

}

Then where you need this

PHP Code:


		
			
//

if($_COOKIE['debug'] == "mySecret" xor $loadDebug) {

    echo "<script type='text/javascript' src='https://getfirebug.com/firebug-lite-debug.js'></script>"; //carefull when mixing https and http between page scheme and source schemes - they should match!

}

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Last edited by Northie : July 19th, 2012 at 04:00 AM.

July 19th, 2012, 09:53 PM

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That's the approach I would take as well, but I recommend not using the xor there; if I had a script where debugging mode was enabled and I told it to enable debugging mode again and the result was it turned off debugging output I would be pretty confused.

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July 19th, 2012, 10:15 PM

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Thanks given to all the great people on this forum. I agree that this solution works best with the requirements I have given. I without telling you wanted to also use it to allow "administrators" to view a front-end site. I feel cookies are too persistent for this additional use, and will use your solution for debugging, but probably hardcoding the special code for the later purpose.

Adding to link urls

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