Re: Variable Troubleshooting Code

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 10:42:59AM -0500, Marc Guay wrote: > > some pretty natives php functions exists to do the job : > > But how many times in my life will I have write echo "<pre>"; ??? > Does anyone have a handy solution? (Make this the default behavior? > Add a "even more human-readable" flag to the function? Create a > simple macro in Aptana 3?) I have an init file that I include in every site that contains a few routines I use over and over. One such is: function instrument($legend, $var) { print $legend . "<br/>\n";; print "<pre><br/>\n"; print_r($var); print "</pre><br/>\n"; } I use this routine wherever I want to see what's going on. It formats (particularly) array output so that I can read it, instead of having everything look like JSON, which is much harder to read. Feel free to use the above yourself as needed. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com