Capturing Debugging Data

[Sarah DeShazo]

Does anyone know of a way to capture debugging information? I need to be able to manipulate this data in my code. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sarah

[Cubensis]

with the cferror tag ?

[Cubensis]

or to capture a cfdump you can use a cfhttp request from another cfm page to that page and retrieve the debugging info from the html that is returned and present in "cfhttp.fileContent".

[Sarah DeShazo]

The problem with <cfdump>, is that it is rarely used in a production
environment. We wouldn't want the users to see the contents of the <cfdump>.
This is what we are trying to do. On a particular page, we need to somehow save
all of the queries that ran. I was thinking if there was some way to capture
the debugging data...then we could go from there. B/c debugging data contains
all of the queries that ran on the page.

[Cubensis]

just place a cfsavecontent with the same code in it as the code between cfquery.

so it might look like this:
<cfset theDebugInfo = "">
...
<cfset timeStart = GetTickCount()>
<cfquery ...>
bla bla q1
</cfquery>
<cfset timeEnd = GetTickCount()>
<cfsavecontent variable="temp">
bla bla q1
</cfsavecontent>
<cfset theDebugInfo = theDebugInfo & temp & "<br/>Time to run query" &
evaluate(timeEnd-timeStart) & "<br/><br/>">
...
except for the first line where you set the 'theDebugInfo" you can repeat this
for every query.

This way you get the info you need in a variable witch you can save in a file
at the end of your page.
If you do it like this you can also switch of debuging mode on your production
server, which is the better thing to do.