Add Custom Settings

A useful feature of the ExpressionEngine Debug Toolbar (EEDT) is that you can integrate your Panel's, or custom extension's, settings into the EEDT settings mechanism. Doing this has a couple advantages:

Note: this tutorial assumes you're already familiar with EEDT extension development and have read Creating a debug panel

1. All settings are consolidated under one Settings Form (the EEDT one)
2. Developers don't have to bother creating their own custom Settings Forms for their debug add-ons.
3. Users have automatic access override config options for your add-ons once installed.

Doing this requires 2 hooks be used in order to, first, register your settings with the EEDT settings object and, second, to create the form elements for updating.

A good point of reference for this tutorial would be the Performance Alerts extension that comes bundled