note 69813 deleted from function.var-dump by nlopess

Note Submitter: anonymous ---- Thanks to edwardzyang for function var_dump_ret above. For those of us who need to see it in web server log files -- i.e., using error_log("string") -- instead of on the page, this version is more readable: function var_dump_ret_for_error_log($mixed = null) { ob_start(); //capture output var_dump($mixed); //dump array/hash/etc. $content = ob_get_contents(); //finish capture ob_end_clean(); //wtf? Idk. $content = strtr($content, "\n", " "); //eliminate newlines return ereg_replace(" +", " ", $content); //compress multiple spaces }