Bug #17612 Updated: print_r, var_dump, var_export - disable direct output

ID: 17612 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: postings.php.net@hans-spath.de -Status: Open +Status: Closed Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: All PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: The second parameter to var_export makes the function return the information into a string, so this functionality is already implemented in someway. (also, IMO having it as an option is not an option :) Derick Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-05 08:46:34] postings.php.net@hans-spath.de print_r, var_dump and var_export generate direct output. I don't like that, because when I dump a variable that contains HTML tags it messes up my output. I don't like to use some ob_* functions to get that output into a string before I can pass it through htmlentities because that's inperformant and looks ugly. I would like to have a function or a ini setting that controls the behavior of print_r, var_dump and var_export. There should be two modes: direct output and returning a string. I think that would be great to people who want to write debug informations into an external file, too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17612&edit=1