Turn on /off the debug mode for particular controller in cakephp

Question

I want to turn on the debug mode for particualr controller in cakephp . Now I am doing this in config/core.php ,it working fine . But it is easy to enable /disable in controller ,we can avoid probelms with working in live sites ,otherwise the log will messed up users

Answer 1

its actually security critical to do anything wild like that in the core.php, it has to be and stay always 0 for ALL user frontend sites.

If you want to enable it for some admin backend action, you can do that inside the action at the very beginning with

Configure::write('debug', 2);

Answer 2

I'm late to the party on this one but just in case anyone else needs this

$skdebug = 0;
if ($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]== '121.75.33.244') $skdebug = 2;
Configure::write('debug', $skdebug);

I work offsite so I'm the only user on the IP, can be a pain to have to keep updating the IP when the router decides to bounce but it's a small price to pay.

It does mean debug is on for all controllers but that's not a problem.

Answer 3

It work for me in cakephp 3.4 .

Use the below code in top of your controller in cakephp 3+:

use Cake\Core\Configure;

Then your beforeFilter() code should be something like below:

public function beforeFilter(\Cake\Event\Event $event){
    parent::beforeFilter($event);
    $this->loadComponent('RequestHandler'); 

    // allow the function to public access
    $this->Auth->allow(['index','logout','register','saveOrders']);

    $actions = [
       'saveOrders','save-orders',
    ];

    // change the debug mode for a particular action
    if (in_array($this->request->params['action'], $actions)) {
       Configure::write('debug', false); // off debug mode
    }
}