making var_dump and var_export even better

17 years ago by Karoly Negyesi — view source

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Hi,

If var_dump would dump the type info into PHP comments then var_dump
would be also valid PHP code. That'd be very cool. I guess this would
be rather easy to code as we already have var_export.

Also, about circular references. Isn't it possible to reuse the
circular recognition from print_r and actually write out a reference
to the offending piece?

Regards,

Karoly Negyesi

17 years ago by Stanislav Malyshev — view source

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Also, about circular references. Isn't it possible to reuse the
circular recognition from print_r and actually write out a reference
to the offending piece?

For var_export it isn't possible since there's no way to refer to the
value being exported.

Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
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17 years ago by Edward Z. Yang — view source

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Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

Also, about circular references. Isn't it possible to reuse the
circular recognition from print_r and actually write out a reference
to the offending piece?

For var_export it isn't possible since there's no way to refer to the
value being exported.

I know this is a little hackish, but what if we inserted a NULL in that
location, and then appended a few PHP statements that created the
references?

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making var_dump and var_export even better

For var_export it isn't possible since there's no way to refer to the value being exported.

For var_export it isn't possible since there's no way to refer to the
value being exported.