A Cleaner Gentler PHP Variable Dump

Submitted by J Ayen Green on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 20:45

Sure. Some structures, like an object with member arrays, will have you in a straight-jacket long before you determine where a particular value falls within the structure and how you should construct a reference to it.

Next time, try this:


print('<pre>').print_r($myarray,1).('<pre>');

The results are astonishingly different...


<pre>
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => apple
[1] => orange
[2] => banana
)

[1] => Array
(
[0] => apple
[1] => orange
[2] => banana
)

)

[1] => Array
(
[0] => apple
[1] => orange
[2] => banana
)

[2] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => apple
[1] => orange
[2] => banana
)

[1] => Array
(
[0] => apple
[1] => orange
[2] => banana
)

)

)
</pre>
Tags: 
debugging
php

2 comments

by osinamea (not verified) on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 21:15

i tend to just view source or inspect element in firebug

by J Ayen Green on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 22:25

View php variables in source/firebug??

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