Re: Finer points of debugging: vardump vs. print_r
| From: | Plutarck | Date: | Tue, 10 Apr 2001 00:36:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Finer points of debugging: vardump vs. print_r | ||
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I use print_r on arrays, and var_dump on everything else.
print_r will not tell you if a variable is NULL, but var_dump will. So I
usually use both.
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Plutarck
Should be working on something...
...but forgot what it was.
""John Lim"" <heyjohnlim@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9asuq0$f1n$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net...
> Just a question that has been besetting me for a while:
>
> which is better for debugging -- vardump( ) or print( ) ?
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> Does anyone have a preference? Why? Is one better than the other?
> Thanks for answering this prickly question!
>
> John Lim
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