A few days ago I wrote:-
> You may want to turn on
> spectra debugging to see which tags are using up the execution time. I'm
> not near my development machine right now but later on I'll post some neat
> tags that can aid in debugging execution time.
Ok naturally I forgot all about this. :)
The normal tag to generate debug output is <cfa_tagDebugOutput>. This
generates a list of various spectra tags called during page generation.
Due to various issues with style sheets, javascript, etc. debug output is
mostly unreadable so I use a custom tag to catch the output generated by
<cfa_tagdebugoutput>. It's not very complicated:-
--- debugcatch.cfm
<cfswitch expression="#thistag.executionmode#">
<cfcase value="START">
<cfif not thistag.hasendtag>
<cfthrow message="no closing debugcatch tag">
</cfif>
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="END">
<cfmail to="<your-email-address-here>" from="<>"
subject="debug output from #CGI.SCRIPT_NAME#"
type="HTML">#thistag.generatedcontent#</cfmail>
<cfset thistag.generatedcontent = "">
</cfcase>
</cfswitch>
---
To use this in a spectra site I have created on OnRequestend.cfm in the
wwwroot that looks like this:
<cfif request.cfa.mode.debug>
<cf_debugcatch>
<cfa_tagDebugOutput>
</cf_debugcatch>
</cfif>
I hope this is of some use to somebody.
While we're on the subject of debugging, a lot of cfa_ tags do not
properly initialize or reset debugging info. While we're all busy
inserting <cfsetting> in the proper places in spectra system tags might I
also suggest that all cfa_ tags contain the following code at startup:
<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="Yes">
<cfif request.cfa.mode.debug>
<cfa_tagDebugBegin>
</cfif>
and the following code before the end of the template (or before <cfexit>)
<cfif request.cfa.mode.debug>
<cfa_tagDebugEnd>
</cfif>
<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="No">
This is done a number of places, but not everywhere. Isn't it a job for
QA to assure that these things are done in a consistent manner?
Finally, the Allaire web site, and the Allaire forums site in particular,
are hardly reachable ever since Allaire left Cambridge. Any idea when
these will be 100% available again?
Cheers
Michiel
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Michiel Boland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Digital Valley Internet Professionals
Plantsoen 17, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 317 465555, Fax: +31 317 460276
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