I'm working with a new company (yay, work!) and our first project involves some front-end development for this site:www.outdoorpainter.com/dev. The front page feature articles are loaded via the K2 plugin, and the current challenge is trying to remove the social links block just below each article title so the copy and title is a little tighter. I've located a item.php file that calls specifically to the social links block, it's within the components folder, but editing the file produces no results.

My only other thought is maybe it's pulling the layout from modules or plugins folders, but I'm finding that I'm over my head in my current knowledge level of php programming to understand what the heck is getting called from where.

Is there any php-specific software out there that examines and shows what php files are being pulled to the top level document and from where? If I knew for certain what file it's drawing the content from, I'd have no problem making the rest of the changes.

BTW I've been working with firebug to locate where elements are drawing their css style from, and I'm wondering if there is a similar tool to show what include a page element is being drawn from? That might be simpler than trying to figure out the specific issue I'm having with this particular site.

I'm pretty sure there is not.

The way I approach such things is

a) View source, find an element with an id or class in the area in which I am interested, then search for that id/class with both single and double inverted commas, edit every instance to add a specific html comment, then run it, view source... but it sounds as if you have done something similar already

b) Slowly, laboriously and painfully add an HTML comment to every possible include - at top and bottom, so you can work out what gets included into what.

Originally posted by: Thad and I'm wondering if there is a similar tool to show what include a page element is being drawn from? That might be simpler than trying to figure out the specific issue I'm having with this particular site.

that's a dead end Thad because the browser has no idea how PHP created the HTML that it receives.

But you have the source for the entire site right? Well if you want to locate, say, a single gif to identify where a block of HTML comes from you could use a file search tool. I've been using grepWin for that sort of thing. Install it, then right click on the root folder of the site and do a simple text search for that gif filename, or chunk of html or whatever seems unique to that part.

Thanks all. Actually I managed to get in touch with the programmer on the project, and although he's still figuring things out as well, he was able to help point me in the right direction.

Originally posted by: Thad BTW I've been working with firebug to locate where elements are drawing their css style from, and I'm wondering if there is a similar tool to show what include a page element is being drawn from? That might be simpler than trying to figure out the specific issue I'm having with this particular site.

Web Developer Tools - right click on the element and select Inspect Element.