note 14172 added to function.var-dump.php

Here's a recursive function to dump any variable (array, string, object) to the screen using <UL> tags. function show_array_tree($a) { if(!is_array($a) && !is_object($a)) { echo $a; return; } echo "<ul>\n"; while(list($key, $val) = @each($a)) { if(is_array($val) || is_object($val)) { echo "$key\n"; show_array_tree($val); } else echo "<LI>$key = '$val'\n"; } echo "</ul>\n"; } http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.var-dump.php