Debug Toolbar Enhancements

[lonnieezell]

Enhance the toolbar for better usability and display.

• Support and track AJAX requests
• Support additional data for timeline entries that will display just below the row when clicked, and be hidden at other times. Should have visual indicator. Primary use would be to display information about the queries - perhaps the first X characters in the query?
• Ability to be minimized to icon?
• Supports other display formats, mainly JSON and XML, that can be displayed based up on the format the client has requested.

Enhancement Checklist:

• Component(s) modified
• Unit testing updated
• User guide updated
• Securely signed commits
• Conforms to style guide

[pbellerive]

I can take a look at this. tell me more about ajax request attribute you want to display.
About data?

PS i know i will securely sign my next commit!

[lonnieezell]

That would be great! Basically, we want to be able to refresh the stats whenever an AJAX request is made. And it needs to be done in a way that just uses plain Javascript (no jQuery, etc). I'm not sure the best way to handle it at the moment. There's one for Laravel that handles this nicely. Others might exist out there, too, to get ideas on how they handle it. Basically, it handles it by saving the pre-rendered HTML and then creating a link to it I believe... which is then reloaded on refresh.

[pbellerive]

Ok, so in fact, you don't want to monitor request / response, but on a ajax request update current information in the debug bar , right?

[lonnieezell]

Correct.

http://phpdebugbar.com not fit?

[pbellerive]

I think we have a lot , simple . But phpdebugbar looks great.

Use phpdebugbar

[lonnieezell]

If you would like to convince us, then you might try actually providing arguments about why we should go with the package that your prefer, instead of just telling us to scrap it. While you're at it, let us know how you'd convince the community that including this particular third-party package is justified when we already have one that currently does 90% of the same stuff.

So, why do you like that one so much? What are the features you like about it? As far as I can tell from quickly scanning their site the only they offer that we don't already support is the AJAX handling.

@lonnieezell , Support AJAX is not enough. Sorry my english is not very good 😞

[lonnieezell]

That's fine. I'm still confused, though. AJAX isn't enough to make our bar better. So what is it missing? What do you wish it did that phpdebugbar already does?