Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:4600 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26816 invoked by uid 1010); 28 Sep 2003 21:50:06 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26792 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2003 21:50:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout07.sul.t-online.com) (194.25.134.83) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 28 Sep 2003 21:50:06 -0000 Received: from fwd00.aul.t-online.de by mailout07.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1A3jQb-0004zq-00; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:50:05 +0200 Received: from mail.darknoise.homeip.net (bNX4YQZLgea6mrOQWLqd9czQjyZn5nb3wHCm7AL-ZsdfpLnHFZ+Lky@[217.225.67.195]) by fmrl00.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1A3jQZ-1nWhpA0; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:50:03 +0200 Received: from noggi (termserv-cluster.germany.net.local [192.168.1.30]) by mail.darknoise.homeip.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 697AE99EC6 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:50:02 +0200 (CEST) To: "ML PHP Internals" Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:51:12 +0200 Message-ID: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 X-Seen: false X-ID: bNX4YQZLgea6mrOQWLqd9czQjyZn5nb3wHCm7AL-ZsdfpLnHFZ+Lky@t-dialin.net Subject: Change var_dump to return information From: dennis@darknoise.homeip.net ("Dennis Sterzenbach") Hi, I got in mind, that it might be interesting for debug purpose, to obtain information like the output of var_dump() to a string. Really would be nice being able to have something like $debug_info_obj = var_dump($obj); or even by introducing a new function like $info=var_info($var); What do you think about it? Regards Dennis Sterzenbach