Showing posts with label var_dump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label var_dump. Show all posts

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Capture the output of var_dump in a string


Introduction

You are programming in PHP and you have an array variable that you’d like to explore at different execution paths. Of course, the best way is to use a PHP debugger like xdebug or Zend Debugger, but, what happens when you’re too lazy to install a debugger? What happens when you don’t want or can’t install a debugger and you just need to check the content of that array by dumping it in your log file? Well, you might think you’re stuck, but, read on…