var_dump

Description

This function displays structured information about one or more expressions that includes its type and value. Arrays and objects are explored recursively with values indented to show structure.

In PHP 5 all public, private and protected properties of objects will be returned in the output.

Parameters

Return Values

No value is returned.

Examples

Example 1. var_dump() example <?php $a = array(1, 2, array("a", "b", "c")); var_dump($a); ?> The above example will output: array(3) { [0]=> int(1) [1]=> int(2) [2]=> array(3) { [0]=> string(1) "a" [1]=> string(1) "b" [2]=> string(1) "c" } } <?php $b = 3.1; $c = true; var_dump($b, $c); ?> The above example will output: float(3.1) bool(true)

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