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Subject: Re: Function proposal
From: cellog@php.net (Greg Beaver)

AnteD wrote:
> /**
>  * Prints the variable in HTML format...
>  *
>  * @param mixed $var
>  * @param bool $return return or print the var
>  * @return string
>  */
> function print_pre($var, $return = false) {
>     $retval = »<pre>«.print_r($var, true).</pre>«;
>     if($return) return $retval;
>     print($retval);
> }
> 
> ok....let the shooting begin :)

the xdebug extension has very nice html-ized var_dump().  Use that on 
your devel machine and you'll never need your print_pre again. 
Otherwise I find it easier to simply do this:

<?php
echo '<pre>';
var_dump($blah);
echo '</pre>';
?>

than to write a function and make sure it is always there.

Alternately, view source from your browser works great for grabbing 
var_dump()/print_r() output.

Greg