shockwavemk/magento2-module-templatehints

Show advanced information for blocks in Magento2 Frontend

Magento 2 - Enhanced template hints

Introduction

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The creation, modification and debugging of Magento 2 frontend templates can be supported by enabling the build in "Template Path Hints for Storefront" in Admin configuration of Magento 2., _(*2)

Store > Configuration > Advanced > Developer > Debug > Enabled Template Path Hints for Storefront > Yes, _(*3)

The result are graphical enhanced frontend blocks with basic information about template pathes., _(*4)

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This information is useful for template-designer and developers to create or modify Magento 2 features, but the information is provided is kept at a very low level:, _(*6)

Default Template-file behavior

Features

This Magento 2 "Templatehints" module addresses that point. New features are added to Template Path Hints functionality of Magento 2:, _(*7)

• General information is displayed for each block, _(*8)

  • Template file
  • Block type
  • Name of block in layout
  • Module for block
  • Information about parent block

• Cache information, _(*9)

  • Cache key of current block
  • Cache Tags of current block
  • Configured lifetime for current block
  • Cache key info string
  • Current status of current block in cache (found, disabled, not found)

Installation of the magento2 template path hints extension

Add the module to your composer file:, _(*10)

{, _(*11)

..., _(*12)

"require": { ..., _(*13)

"shockwavemk/magento2-module-templatehints": "dev-master",, _(*14)

... },, _(*15)

Add my packages server to your composer file:, _(*16)

{ "repositories": [ { "type": "composer", "url": "https://packages.martin-kramer.com" } ] }, _(*17)