Enable template path hint in admin pages - Magento

Question

I want to enable template path hints in admin panel. I know how to do it for the front end, but for back end?? I actually want to edit the admin panel .

Thanks in a

Answer 1

I know it's late but you can do it easily this way: Just change settings in the configuration file www/app/code/core/Mage/Core/etc/system.xml

Set sections>dev>debug>fields>template_hints>show_in_default to 1 and set sections>dev>debug>fields>template_hints_blocks>show_in_default to 1 too

Answer 2

A quite handy solution: Modify getShowTemplateHints() function defined in \app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\Block\Template.php file as below:

To run below function: In your browser type, http://www.mymagentosite.com/?th=1&token=PHP

You can see template hints and added Block Names.

public function getShowTemplateHints()
{
    if (is_null(self::$_showTemplateHints))
    {
        self::$_showTemplateHints = Mage::getStoreConfig('dev/debug/template_hints')
            && Mage::helper('core')->isDevAllowed();
        self::$_showTemplateHintsBlocks = Mage::getStoreConfig('dev/debug/template_hints_blocks')
            && Mage::helper('core')->isDevAllowed();
    }

    // overwrite the template hint [SPECIALLY FOR SHOWING TEMPLATE PATH HINTS IN ADMIN]
    $th     = Mage::app()->getRequest()->getParam('th', false);
    $token  = Mage::app()->getRequest()->getParam('token', false);
    if($th == 1 && $token == 'PHP'){
        self::$_showTemplateHints = true; // for template path
        self::$_showTemplateHintsBlocks = true; // block names
    }

    return self::$_showTemplateHints;
}

Answer 3

Go to your Database and Just run this query:

INSERT INTO core_config_data (scope, scope_id, path, value)
VALUES ('default', 0, 'dev/debug/template_hints', 1),
('default', 0, 'dev/debug/template_hints_blocks', 1);

To disable them again, run this query:

UPDATE core_config_data set value = 0 where scope = 'default' and scope_id = 0 and path ='dev/debug/template_hints'

To enable again run this query:

UPDATE core_config_data set value = 1 where scope = 'default' and scope_id = 0 and path ='dev/debug/template_hints'