[support] turn debug on?

[sander-martijn]

ok, that was cute.  The devel module seems to have brought my entire 
site down.  Even after deleting it from the modules dir.  oh well - 
looks like i'm done for the night!

dupal1.no wrote:
> OK. This is not my strongest side :-D
> But I will try this idea ; Can this module help you?
> http://drupal.org/project/devel
> 
> sander-martijn skrev:
>> Thanks - I know those.  In this case I'm not looking to see error 
>> messages on the screen - I've already eliminated errors.  And web 
>> developer and firebug are client side tools.  What I want is to trace 
>> what's happening on the app when there are no errors but things are 
>> still not happening as expected.  It's clear that drupal already has it 
>> built in - I'm just looking to find out how to turn it on.
>>
>> dupal1.no wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi
>>> If  you only want to se your error-messages on screen you can put this 
>>> line in you htaccess-file:
>>>
>>> php_flag display_errors on  (remember to take it away when you are finis.
>>>
>>> But Firefox hav some fine tools:
>>> *Web Developer* and *Firebug*.  I use them all the time.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> sander-martijn skrev:
>>>     
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to debug an issue with the queries that the location module 
>>>> is performing.  Basically it works flawlessly when logged in but not 
>>>> when you're not.  I erred earlier thinking it was working fine, but I 
>>>> guess it's not.  The module doesn't seem to be actively maintained so 
>>>> I'm stuck debugging it myself.  If anyone has any ideas as to why that 
>>>> may happen or what to look for I would greatly appreciate it (i've 
>>>> already patched the module with a patch someone offered on the support 
>>>> page as well as edited some sql to eliminate an ambiguity issue - I got 
>>>> rid of the errors but not get "Displaying results 1 - 0 of 11 for search 
>>>> on 05401" for a search that has 11 results if you're logged in).
>>>>
>>>> That said I have a more general question that has nothing to do with the 
>>>> module.  I want to find out what the queries are that are getting 
>>>> executed on the database so that I can
>>>> a. compare them to the code (i discovered while debugging the first 
>>>> issue that the queries executed are not always the same as t
>>>> b. run them directly on the db and see what I get
>>>>
>>>> I found in database.mysql.inc the following:
>>>>  if ($debug)...
>>>> which is a variable that gets passed to the function and defaults to 0.
>>>>
>>>> How do I turn debug on without editing the mysql file?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> .sander
>>>>   
>>>>       
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