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Change var_dump to return information

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Dennis Sterzenbach

22 years ago

Hi,

I got in mind, that it might be interesting for debug purpose,
to obtain information like the output of var_dump() to a string.

Really would be nice being able to have something like
$debug_info_obj = var_dump($obj);

or even by introducing a new function like $info=var_info($var);

What do you think about it?

Regards
Dennis Sterzenbach

Xavier Spriet

22 years ago

IIRC, something like:
ob_start(); var_dump($obj); $debug_info_obj = ob_get_clean(); would do
the trick.

Thanks,

Xavier

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 17:51, Dennis Sterzenbach wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got in mind, that it might be interesting for debug purpose,
> to obtain information like the output of var_dump() to a string.
>
> Really would be nice being able to have something like
>   $debug_info_obj = var_dump($obj);
>
> or even by introducing a new function like $info=var_info($var);
>
> What do you think about it?
>
> Regards
>   Dennis Sterzenbach

--
Xavier Spriet <xavier@wuug.org>
The Windsor Unix Users Group

Antony Dovgal

22 years ago

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:51:12 +0200
"Dennis Sterzenbach" <dennis@darknoise.homeip.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got in mind, that it might be interesting for debug purpose,
> to obtain information like the output of var_dump() to a string.
>
> Really would be nice being able to have something like
>   $debug_info_obj = var_dump($obj);
>
> or even by introducing a new function like $info=var_info($var);
>
> What do you think about it?

I think you can use var_export(); in this case.

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WBR,
Antony Dovgal aka tony2001
tony2001@phpclub.net