note 94841 added to function.get-class-vars

Similar to gizmobits at hotmail dot com I needed a simple Dump() / ToString() function which I could include into any class and display a list of all member variables and their values. My solution is as follows. Note that the default separator is a newline, though you can specify your own (i.e. <br/>) by specifying it as parameter. This makes it much easier to view the dumped output and use it for debugging - this is one of my pet hates of print_r which always uses \n and requires you to view the page source in order to make the values readable. Note that this function doesn't support array values - though it should be a simple matter to add if(is_array($this->$key)... inside the foreach loop and iterate each array element. function Dump($sep="\n") { $vars = get_class_vars(get_class($this)); foreach($vars as $key=>$val) { printf("%s => %s%s", $key, $this->$key, $sep); } } Hope this helps. ---- Server IP: 87.124.86.47 Probable Submitter: 94.195.160.63 (proxied: 94.195.160.63) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-class-vars.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/94841 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94841/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94841/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94841/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94841/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94841/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94841/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/94841 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/94841 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php