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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] var_dump_html()
From: marcot@tabini.ca (Marco Tabini)

My only consideration is that most people use var_dump in a web
environment--hence it seems counterintuitive to have to enclose the
function in additional HTML tags.

Cheers!

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 11:09, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Marco Tabini wrote:
> 
> > Not sure if this interest anyone, but the attached patch adds a function
> > called var_dump_html() that performs the same functionality as
> > var_dump(), except that it outputs HTML instead of plain text.
> > var_dump() is a bit impractical to use in a web environment, IMO.
> 
> We already have three functions for dumping debug info (var_dump, 
> var_export and print_r). The latter two can be used like:
> 
> echo "<pre>". var_export($var, TRUE). "</pre>";
> 
> I don't think that we should add another here.
> 
> regards,
> Derick
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