note 77234 added to function.var-dump

As Bryan said, it is possible to capture var_dump() output to a string. But it's not quite exact if the dumped variable contains HTML code. You can use this instead: <?php echo '<pre>'; // This is for correct handling of newlines ob_start(); var_dump($var); $a=ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); echo htmlspecialchars($a,ENT_QUOTES); // Escape every HTML special chars (especially > and < ) echo '</pre>'; ?> ---- Server IP: 195.221.21.36 Probable Submitter: 83.179.129.107 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.var-dump.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/77234 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77234/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77234/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77234/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77234/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77234/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77234/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77234 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/77234 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php