Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:4601 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 45559 invoked by uid 1010); 29 Sep 2003 00:10:14 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 45535 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2003 00:10:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ns.eliquid.com) (66.33.0.12) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2003 00:10:13 -0000 Received: from loginx.linkadmin.org (d57-70-133.home.cgocable.net [24.57.70.133]) by ns.eliquid.com (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA23147; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:58:46 -0400 To: Dennis Sterzenbach Cc: ML PHP Internals In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: The Windsor Unix Users Group Message-ID: <1064794208.10717.1.camel@shadow.linkadmin.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:10:08 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Change var_dump to return information From: xavier@wuug.org (Xavier Spriet) IIRC, something like: ob_start(); var_dump($obj); $debug_info_obj = ob_get_clean(); would do the trick. Thanks, Xavier On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 17:51, Dennis Sterzenbach wrote: > 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 -- Xavier Spriet The Windsor Unix Users Group