I'm using symfony 1.4 with Doctrine.

I'm trying to find a way to enable debug mode only if the current sfUser has a special debugger credential.

I already created a filter that deactivates the symfony debug bar if the sfUser has not this credential (the web_debug is set to true in my settings.yml file):

class checkWebDebugFilter extends sfFilter
{
  public function execute($filterChain)
  {
    if(!$this->getContext()->getUser()->hasCredential('debugger'))
    {
      sfConfig::set('sf_web_debug', false);
    }

    $filterChain->execute();
  }
}

The code of my index.php file is:

require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/../config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php');
$configuration = ProjectConfiguration::getApplicationConfiguration('frontend', 'prod', false));
sfContext::createInstance($configuration)->dispatch();

The problem is, as the debug mode is hardcoded to false in my index.php, it is also disabled for debuggers; therefore the Web debug bar does not show Doctrine statements nor timing indications.

Is there a way to enable debug mode only if the current sfUser has a precise credential?

I tried to add sfConfig::set('sf_debug', true); to my checkWebDebugFilter::execute() method but as the filter is executed after Doctrine statements, they are not recorded.

I also tried to add session_start(); in my index.php file, then browsing through the $_SESSION variable to check whether the current user has the debugger credential, but it did not work (and it was not in the spirit of symfony either).

Thanks in advance for your answers.

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