How to Debug Variables in Smarty like in PHP var_dump()

Question

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

Answer 1

To debug in smarty in prestashop 1.6.x :

{ffffd($variable)} -> debug and die

{ppp($variable)} -> debug only

An onther usefull debug tag :

{debug}

Answer 2

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)

Answer 3

For what it's worth, you can do {$varname|@debug_print_var} to get a var_dump()-esque output for your variable.

Answer 4

{$variable|@debug_print_var nofilter} and you not need to add "<pre>" tags

{$variable|var_dump} show you more (but worse formatting) because debug_print_var not showing private variable in object!

Answer 5

Try out with the Smarty Session:

{$smarty.session|@debug_print_var}

or

{$smarty.session|@print_r}

To beautify your output, use it between <pre> </pre> tags

Answer 6

in smarty V3 you can use this

{var_dump($variable)}