->debug

Debugging options

enabled

Key

enabled

Datatype

boolean

Description

If set, TYPO3 will log every SQL execution in the tx_dbal_debuglog table.

This option must be set for the other options below to work.

You can view the log from the backend; There is a DBAL module in the Tools main module.

printErrors

Key

printErrors

Datatype

boolean

Description

If set, SQL errors will be debug()’ed to browser after any SQL execution.

EXPLAIN

Key

EXPLAIN

Datatype

boolean

Description

Will log the result of a EXPLAIN SELECT... in case of select-queries. Can help you to benchmark the performance of your indexes in the database.

When using Oracle (the ADOdb oci8 driver) you must create the necessary PLAN_TABLE manually, according to the Oracle version you use. See http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/explainplan.html for some background information.

parseQuery

Key

parseQuery

Datatype

boolean

Description

Will parse all possible parts of the SQL queries, compile them again and match the results. If the parsed and recompiled queries did not match they will enter the log table and can subsequently be addressed. This will help you to spot “TYPO3 incompatible SQL” (as defined by the core parser of \TYPO3\CMS\Dbal\Database\SqlParser).

joinTables

Key

joinTables

Datatype

boolean

Description

Will log every SELECT query performed with a table join - necessary to make sure that all tables that may be joined in TYPO3 is also handled by the same handlerKey (which is required for obvious reasons!)

numberRows

Key

numberRows

Datatype

boolean

Description

Will log number of affected rows in previous INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE operation or number of returned rows in previous SELECT query.

backtrace

Key

backtrace

Datatype

integer

Description

If set, the given number of backtrace steps are logged with the query.

Example

This enables all debug options:

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['EXTCONF']['dbal']['debugOptions'] = array(
    'enabled' => TRUE,        // Generally, enable debugging.
    'printErrors' => TRUE,    // Enable output of SQL errors after query executions.
    'EXPLAIN' => TRUE,        // EXPLAIN SELECT ...(Only on default handler)
    'parseQuery' => TRUE,     // Parsing queries, testing parsability (All queries)
    'joinTables' => TRUE,
    'numberRows' => TRUE,     // Number of affected/returned rows (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE or SELECT)
);