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DevelopmentMode

Summary

Controls if development is enabled or not.

Usage

DevelopmentMode=enabled|disabled

Description

When enabled the system will perform more checks like modification time on compiled vs source file and will reduce need for clearing template compiled files.

Note: Live sites should not have this enabled since it increases file access  and can be slower.

Note: When switching this setting the template compiled files must be cleared.

Svitlana Shatokhina (24/05/2006 8:16 am)

Sarah Haïm-Lubczanski (12/11/2014 4:09 pm)

Svitlana Shatokhina, Sarah Haïm-Lubczanski

Comments

  • Information in file

    Wednesday 03 September 2008 3:08:23 pm

    Paul Leclercq

    Well it is not yet documented but this is what appears in the default site.ini file:

    # By enabling development mode all untranslated texts will be translated
    # using the bork rules.
    # See lib/ezi18n/classes/ezborktranslator.php for more information.
    DevelopmentMode=disabled

    And According to the ezborktranslator file:

    \class eZBorkTranslator ezborktranslator.php
    \ingroup eZTranslation
    \brief Translates text into the Bork language (Mock Swedish)

    Does this mean it is a quick translatation mode into swedish... ?? ! ! ?

    • Re: Information in file

      Friday 21 November 2008 5:05:21 pm

      Marco Zinn

      I think, Paul is wrong here.

      There are 2 different settings called "DevelopmentMode" in the site.ini file (as of ez 4.0, at least)
      The one Paul mentions is in [RegionalSettings] . The one we talk about here (in [TemplateSettings]) has this comment and is used during template development.

      # Controls if development is enabled or not.
      # When enabled the system will perform more checks like modification time on
      # compiled vs source file and will reduce need for clearing template compiled
      # files.
      # Note: Live sites should not have this enabled since it increases file access
      # and can be slower.
      # Note: When switching this setting the template compiled files must be cleared.
      DevelopmentMode=disabled

  • CSS Concatenation - ?

    Wednesday 10 February 2010 11:22:36 pm

    Paul Bolger

    Switching on Development Mode also disables the new (4.2) "CSS Concatenation" - my term, not sure if there's an official one as yet - the collection of CSS files into one compressed file.


    See 
    http://share.ez.no/forums/developer/how-to-disable-css-caching