Debug value helper function

returns a human-readable version of a variable

function dval($val, $print=true, $method='var_export'){ 
 
    // dval = Debug a VALue -> easy to remember for me
 
    if ($method == 'var_export'){
        $r = var_export($val, true);
    }
    else {
        $r = print_r($val, true);
    }
 
    if ($print){ print "<pre>[[" . htmlspecialchars($r) . "]]</pre>"; }
    else { return "<pre>[[" . htmlspecialchars($r) . "]]</pre>"; }
}

Snippet Details

Author
Jonas John
License
Public Domain
Language
PHP
Created
04/05/2006
Updated
04/05/2006
Tags
debug

$v = array(1,2,3,array(1,2,3));
 
dval($v);
dval($v, 1, 'print_r');

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