PM Detective

PHOSPHOR Media’s Detective is the easiest, fastest way to locate the variables you need to build, test and expand the abilities and customize the appearance of your store.

The benefits of PM Detective are:

• Control who sees the variables
  
• Control how the variables are shown:
  
• Hide the results in HTML comments on the page
  
• Display in easy to use tabs on the actual page
  
• Saved the results to a file
  
• Simplify finding variables by only showing the ones that are of interest.
  

Control Who Sees the Variables

PM Detective lets you chose who can see the variables, allowing you to keep PM Detective turned on even while the store is live—while preventing the variable display from effecting the appearance of the store to others.

…you’ve just opened your new store; traffic is good…but, despite all of your testing, few customers are making it past the shipping selection page…what’s going on? Well, with PM Detective you can get under the hood without letting anyone else know you are in there.

Simply set PM Detective to only display for your “IP” (and or others) and only those visitors will see its output while everyone else carries on, business as usual. You can also use PM Detective’s “Share” feature to quickly let others see the results…perfect for when a module developer or other helper is lending a hand.

Show, Hide, or Save Variables

Control how the variable results are shown. Along with the easy-to use tabbed display of variables on the page itself, you can also choose to hide the output in HTML comments on the page or save the results to file. The tabbed display also lets you control the font size of the displayed results, and choose which type of variables you want shown on the tabs (System, Global, or Settings/Local). View Screen Shot of Results

Needles in Haystacks

Spend less time building your store and more time building your business. Unlike other tools, PM Detective can be targeted to find only the variables you need, making finding the correct variables easier and less error prone.

…if you are looking for a variables associated with the category tree, you can use ‘category tree’ as the Display Only variable, and see ONLY those variables…

There are thousands of variables…you need to find one. PM Detective lets you refine the displayed list of variables with three powerful and simple to use filters:

• Ignore variables that begin with, end with, or contain specific terms, or locate a variable with a specific name.
  
• Display ONLY variables that begin with, end with, or contain specific terms, or locate a variable with a specific name.
  
• Find the value of a variable that matches a term, contains, begins with, or ends with a specific term.
  

View System Variables

PM Detective also shows you all the available system variables. These are often overlooked (maybe because they are hidden) yet valuable triggers for things such as browser type, IP, referring URL, cookie values, etc.

All in all, these features add up to tons of time (and frustration) saved.