[ic] Hint for seeing internal variable data

[Stefan Hornburg]

Christian Brink wrote:

> Here's what I do if I want to see an internal interchange variable.
>
> 1. Create a test page - I call mine test.html (because I am so creative).
>
> 2. in the content area all you need is:
> <pre>[test]</pre>
>
>
> 3. create a UserTag called test - I call mine test.tag (you get the 
> picture).
>
> UserTag test Order
> UserTag test Routine <<EOR
> sub {
>     use Data::Dumper;
>     my $cart = $Vend::Items;
>     return Dumper $cart;
> }
> EOR
>
> 4. open the test.html page in your browser.
>
> Explaination:
> Data::Dumper is an extremly usefuly perl module that stringifys perl 
> variables. (example from #3 might be)
>
> [
>   {
>     'price_group' => '',
>     'mv_ib' => 'products',
>     'mv_sku' => undef,
>     'mv_ip' => 0,
>     'quantity' => '1',
>     'gift_cert' => '',
>     'code' => 'FOO',
>     'option_type' => ''
>   },
>   {
>     'price_group' => '',
>     'mv_ib' => 'products',
>     'mv_sku' => undef,
>     'quantity' => '1',
>     'mv_ip' => '1',
>     'gift_cert' => '',
>     'code' => 'BAR',
>     'option_type' => ''
>   }
> ]
>
> So basically you can feed Dumper any interchange internal variable 
> (like $Session and $Item) and get the structure real time.
>
> Make sure you take down the page when you are done, so people don't 
> get a view of info you don't want them to.

No big news, IC provides this feature already:

[calcn]
uneval($Items);
[/calcn]

Nevertheless I really appreciate any reports and tiny-Howtos about your 
way to work with Interchange on this list.

Bye
       Racke