Is there a pretty print for PHP?

Question

I'm fixing some PHP scripts and I'm missing ruby's pretty printer. i.e.

require 'pp' arr = {:one => 1} pp arr 

will output {:one => 1}. This even works with fairly complex objects and makes digging into an unknown script much easier. Is there some way to duplicate this functionality in PHP?

Answer 1

This is what I use to print my arrays:

<pre>     <?php         print_r($your_array);     ?> </pre> 

The magic comes with the pre tag.

Answer 2

Both print_r() and var_dump() will output visual representations of objects within PHP.

$arr = array('one' => 1); print_r($arr); var_dump($arr);