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# Debugging Console
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There is a debugging console included with Smarty. The console informs
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you of all the [included](./language-builtin-functions/language-function-include.md) templates,
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[assigned](../programmers/api-functions/api-assign.md) variables and
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[config](./language-variables/language-config-variables.md) file variables for the current
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invocation of the template. A template file named `debug.tpl` is
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included with the distribution of Smarty which controls the formatting
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of the console.
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Set [`$debugging`](../programmers/api-variables/variable-debugging.md) to TRUE in Smarty, and if needed
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set [`$debug_tpl`](../programmers/api-variables/variable-debug-template.md) to the template resource
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path to `debug.tpl` (this is in [`SMARTY_DIR`](../programmers/smarty-constants.md) by
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default). When you load the page, a Javascript console window will pop
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up and give you the names of all the included templates and assigned
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variables for the current page.
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To see the available variables for a particular template, see the
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[`{debug}`](./language-builtin-functions/language-function-debug.md) template function. To disable the
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debugging console, set [`$debugging`](../programmers/api-variables/variable-debugging.md) to FALSE. You
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can also temporarily turn on the debugging console by putting
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`SMARTY_DEBUG` in the URL if you enable this option with
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[`$debugging_ctrl`](../programmers/api-variables/variable-debugging-ctrl.md).
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> **Note**
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> The debugging console does not work when you use the
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> [`fetch()`](../programmers/api-functions/api-fetch.md) API, only when using
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> [`display()`](../programmers/api-functions/api-display.md). It is a set of javascript statements
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> added to the very bottom of the generated template. If you do not like
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> javascript, you can edit the `debug.tpl` template to format the output
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> however you like. Debug data is not cached and `debug.tpl` info is not
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> included in the output of the debug console.
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> **Note**
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> The load times of each template and config file are in seconds, or
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> fractions thereof.
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See also [troubleshooting](../appendixes/troubleshooting.md).
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