"explain" and other ACP links

[BigJohnny]

What are these links i see in the ACP in debug mode?

Things like "explain" and the other od little links i see there.

clicking them returns nothing basically so what are they....


Explain .... :D

[Marco van Herwaarden]

The Explain link will show the queries that have ran to create the page when in debug mode.

[Ziki]

I always wondered.Where does it display?It displays them even without clicking

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If you are running in debug mode, it will show on each page.

[Ziki]

Well yeah so the explain link is not needed right?

Or can it be added like a link so even if debug mode is not on it will display quries?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

No, you will need to run in debug mode.

[Adrian Schneider]

Explain mode shows you how fast queries are executing and the "EXPLAIN" output of the query (explain select ... ) will show you which indexes are being used, the number of rows, etc. VERY useful. Learn it, love it.

[BigJohnny]

when i click it though... nothing happens.... it kinda just refreshes the page and i dont see anything new

[Ziki]

when i click it though... nothing happens.... it kinda just refreshes the page and i dont see anything new

true.I don't get it :-/.May it be that I use a plugin for it and don't edit the config.php file?

[Adrian Schneider]

Yep you have to edit config.php to do it or else it's too late to view the explain page.