I finally updated this. It is now an extension and works both in the CP and on templates. Please check it out in the new thread. I’ll leave the plugin here for reference but it is now deprecated and probably won’t work anyway!
Hi,
We had a need for some way to easily see cat_ids, field_ids etc when developing templates so we came up this little plugin.
After adding the plugin tags to a template, and if you are logged in as a Super Admin, a small tab appears at the top left. Clicking this opens a pane with 6 tables of data:
Weblogs, Member Groups, Categories, Weblog Fields, Admin Quicklinks and Weblog Entries
Each table line has shortcut links that will open that specific item in the CP in a new window.
There are two tags:
{exp:pur_developer:js}
Should be placed within the <head> of your template. This adds links to the Javascript and the CSS.
{exp:pur_developer}
Should be placed directly after the <body> tag. This creates the developer pane tab and populates the tables.
The attached image shows the developer pane open on a template. Any suggestions or feedback very welcome.
Cheers
Dry
P.S. copy the pur_developer folder containing the image, CSS and JS into the plugins folder
Update 1.1
Changed the way the links are generated to use system-generated PATH variables
