Make var_dump look pretty

Question

I have a simple $_GET[] query var set for showing testing data when pulling down queries from the DB.

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Answer 1

I really love var_export(). If you like copy/paste-able code, try:

echo '
' . var_export($data, true) . '
';

Or even something like this for color syntax highlighting:

highlight_string("");

You can do the same with print_r(). For var_dump() you would just need to add the

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echo '
';
var_dump($data);
echo '
';