Re: Simple (?) var_dump question
| From: | CPT John W. Holmes | Date: | Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:05:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Simple (?) var_dump question | ||
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From: "Wouter van Vliet" <wouter@esctoday.com>
> aiaiaia ... you are all pretty right, for another function was forged.
> var_export has a "return" flag as second argument where print_r and
var_dump
> both have other variables as second (and third, and fourth, and sixth) ..
>
> So you can do: $logger->debug(var_export($Var), true)); which will log the
> var to your log.
print_r() is also a BOOL for the second argument that controls whether a
value is returned or displayed.
The only difference between print_r() and var_export() produces valid PHP
code.
The output from var_export() can only be captured with output buffering.
---John Holmes...