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liamchapman on 06/24/11


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PHP Array Debug

 / Published in: PHP
 

a more useful way of printing php arrays in a nice readable format and able to decode serialized and json_encoded strings.

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  1. function debug_r($array=null,$dump=false,$string_type='serialize')
  2. {	
  3. echo '<pre>'."
  4. ";		
  5. if(is_array($array))
  6. {
  7. 	if(count($array) > 0)
  8. 	{	
  9. 		if($dump)
  10. 		{
  11. 			var_dump($array);
  12. 		}else{
  13. 			print_r($array);
  14. 		}
  15. 	}else{
  16. 		echo "Array empty"."
  17. ";			
  18. 	}		
  19. }else if(is_string($array))
  20. {		
  21. 	switch($string_type)
  22. 	{
  23. 		default:
  24. 		case 'serialize':
  25. 			$array = unserialize($array);
  26. 		break;				
  27. 		case 'json':
  28. 			$array = json_decode($array);
  29. 		break;
  30. 	}		
  31. 	if(count($array) > 0)
  32. 	{
  33. 		if($dump)
  34. 		{
  35. 			var_dump($array);
  36. 		}else{
  37. 			print_r($array);
  38. 		}
  39. 	}else{
  40. 		echo "Array empty"."
  41. ";			
  42. 	}		
  43. }else{		
  44. 	echo 'Invalid format'."
  45. ";		
  46. }		
  47. echo '</pre>'."
  48. ";		
  49. }//end debug_r

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