DsnFrontendBlocks (for shopware)

Plugin for shopware that will show frontend smarty blocks as HTML comments in the page's source code.

Setting it up

• Install the plugin
• Create a cookie called blocks with any content you want
• Clear the cache from the backend
• Reload a frontend page

What does it look like

How does it work?

• Plugin registers a PreFilter in smarty
• Any template file will go through the BlockAnnotator which will split the blocks using the BlockSplitter class
• Blocks are sorted by nesting level and then replaced with their old content but a START and END HTML comment inside
• stripping of HTML comments is disabled temporarily (sSEOREMOVECOMMENTS)
• another template and compile cache directory is registered, so other users are not affected

todos

• Add IP range or something similar
• Allow setting the cookie from the backend for more convenience
• Improve performance
• Recursive regex should already to the trick
• Perhaps add to developer toolbar
• instead of HTML comment might allow some fancy hover effects
• file path might be useful, due to the inheritance structure, currently always the same file path would be shown
• cache compatibility (do not cache, if user has blocks cookie)