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I’m taking a quick break from the Magento series as I plumb the depth of EAV and get through a crunch phase at The Day Job™. In the selfless interest of helping out the internet and the selfish interest of keeping my front page free of moldy content, I thought I’d pass on a simple Controller dispatch logging patch for Magento. This is mainly useful when you’re setting up a new Module and can’t figure out why Magento won’t see it, or if Magento keeps throwing the CMS 404 page in your face
A Few Caveats
- These files are not a true Magento Module. While powerful, creating something like this with Magento’s override system would be an order of magnitude harder
- Because of the above, I can’t make any promises about using this with a anything but Magento version 1.3.2.3
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Standard caveats about production servers apply. Use at your own risk, no warranties, etc.
Installing
Take the “Mage” folder (1.3.2.3/Mage) and place it in
app/code/local
so that your directory tree looks like
local/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Action.php
local/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Front.php
local/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Router/Standard.php
local/Mage/Core/Model/App.php
Then, enable logging and you should start seeing messages in your system.log that look something like
2009-09-20T16:55:48+00:00 DEBUG (7): Matching router [standard] = Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Router_Standard vs. request
2009-09-20T16:55:48+00:00 DEBUG (7): Module: helloworld
2009-09-20T16:55:48+00:00 DEBUG (7): Found Modules: Array
(
[0] => Alanstormdotcom_Helloworld
)
2009-09-20T16:55:48+00:00 DEBUG (7): Setting Route Name [helloworld] on request
2009-09-20T16:55:48+00:00 DEBUG (7): Passing request into controller Alanstormdotcom_Helloworld_IndexController
2009-09-20T16:55:48+00:00 DEBUG (7): Setting Module Name to: helloworld at Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Router_Standard::match(248)
2009-09-20T16:55:48+00:00 DEBUG (7): Setting Controller Name to: index at Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Router_Standard::match(250)
2009-09-20T16:55:48+00:00 DEBUG (7): Setting Action Name to: index at Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Router_Standard::match(252)
2009-09-20T16:55:48+00:00 DEBUG (7): Calling dispatch method on Alanstormdotcom_Helloworld_IndexController
2009-09-20T16:55:48+00:00 DEBUG (7): Action Controller: Alanstormdotcom_Helloworld_IndexController dispatching with action [index]
You’ll also see a message whenever Magento can’t make a Module, Controller, or Action Method match, which is useful when debugging 404 problems.
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