To prevent the debug toolbar from appearing for a certain controller method when in development mode, for example if you are generating a CSV file with code, edit app/Config/Filters.php
and add the following
public function __construct()
{
// hide debug toolbar when generating a CSV file
if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'export_csv')) unset($this->globals['after'][0]);
}
It isn’t obvious from the CodeIgniter 4 documentation how to prevent the debug toolbar from being added to the bottom of text output with a ResourceController.
Either output an array which changes the content type to application/json,
edit app/Config/Filters.php
public $globals = [
'before' => [
// 'honeypot',
// 'csrf',
],
'after' => [
// 'toolbar',
'toolbar' => ['except' => 'feedback/*'],
// 'honeypot',
],
];
Or use header X-Requested-With
set to XMLHttpRequest
in a REST client like Postman.