Re: Emulation: $var = print_r($array)

On Thursday 04 April 2002 22:43, Julio Nobrega Trabalhando wrote: > Is there a way to do something like this? > > I wrote a wanna-be debugger. It just write to a file simple and common > used function and variables, array or objects. Then when I activate it, a > new window is opened with these information. Simple stuff. > > The problem is that if I do this: > > fwrite($fp, $_SESSION); > > It will record Array, of course. If I serialize it, it's unreadble > compared to print_r(); > > $var = print_r($array), well, prints the array like I suspected. > > Is there a way to "emulate" var_dump(), print_r() so I can write it to a > file and when I open this file the information are shown like if I really > did a print_r();? ob_start(); print_r($doo); $dah = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); echo $dah; -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk /* Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Gandhi */