Alternatives to var_export

Question

var_export function causes an exception while argument has circular references. Are there any alternatives (except serialize) which handle it correctly?

Answer 1

You could try this :

ob_start();
var_dump($var);
$dump = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

And why can't you use serialize ?

Answer 2

Are you looking for var_dump or even debug_backtrace

Update:

Converting object to string