Req #55149 [NEW]: Limit the result of print_r() to facilitate debugging

From: Operating system: Irrelevant PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Class/Object related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:Limit the result of print_r() to facilitate debugging Description: ------------ You could add an additional third parameter to print_r() function in order to limit the nesting level of output. Instead of showing all levels of nested arrays/objects, it could be limited to N nesting levels. If I only want to know my simple class member variables (with 3 or 4 of them) of an object but the object has members with "references/alias" to other big objects/classes, the screen is filled with a lot of (in this case) useless information. If I could limit in this case the output to 1 or 2 nesting levels it would be much easier for me to debug. If this third parameter were ommitted or zero, the whole tree would be shown (as done now). -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55149&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=mysqlcfg Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55149&r=trysnapshot54