var-dump

Every decent PHP programmer has a print_r or var_dump wrapper they use, love and assign shortcut keys to, why don't we share our favourite ones . A full year of time and labor after asking this, I've finally open sourced my version of var_dump, Kint. Read about it in the project page , or directly in github . Here's a screenshot: Sorry for the plug :) EDIT: I'd just like to remind the commenters, that this is not a support forum, if you're having problems/want a feature, please file an issue . Support requesting comments will be flagged for deletion. Pascal MARTIN My prefered on is the var

I'd like to capture the output of var_dump to a string. The PHP documentation says; As with anything that outputs its result directly to the browser, the output-control functions can be used to capture the output of this function, and save it in a string (for example). What would be an example of how that might work? print_r() isn't a valid possibility, because it's not going to give me the information that I need. Use output buffering: <?php ob_start(); var_dump($someVar); $result = ob_get_clean(); ?> Try var_export You may want to check out var_export — while it doesn't provide the same