'Firebug' for CiviCRM?

[Margie Roswell]

I can imagine 'Firebug' for CiviCRM

Mouseover the user interface, and selected areas display the underlying tables/fields, and code/line number.

I think it would be awesome. Is it possible?

Does anything like this already exist for viewing source mysql and php?


I notice that the dev module allows you to view underlying theme functions in drupal 6.

How to make something like this happen for CiviCRM?

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[Margie Roswell]

Well, this looks pretty cool...
http://www.litfuel.net/mybic/

I'd like to know more about similar tools for finding out what's going on behind the scenes....  how to setup debugging, and esp. anything that anyone else has incorporated into firebug...

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Marjorie Roswell <mroswell@...> wrote:

I can imagine 'Firebug' for CiviCRM

Mouseover the user interface, and selected areas display the underlying tables/fields, and code/line number.

I think it would be awesome. Is it possible?

Does anything like this already exist for viewing source mysql and php?


I notice that the dev module allows you to view underlying theme functions in drupal 6.

How to make something like this happen for CiviCRM?

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[kenlyle]

Marjorie Roswell wrote:

I can imagine 'Firebug' for CiviCRM

How to make something like this happen for CiviCRM?

Marjorie, seem unlikely, because by the time the UI is seen, the SQL has already been run, and there's no way to link from "dumb" HTML tables of results back to SQL queries, unless perhaps there is an XML class or something that can provide at least a little information.
You could mock up a prototype, though, because it sounds very useful as a form of documentation...which leads me to think....perhaps there IS a PHP documentor that would do something like this...
Best,
Ken