Making PHP var_dump() values display one line per value

Question

When I echo var_dump($_variable), I get one long, wrapping line with all varable's and values like

["kt_login_user"]=>  string(8) "teacher1" ["kt_login_id"]=>  string(3) "973" ["kt_campusID"]=>  string(4) "9088" ["kt_positionID"]=>  string(1) "5"  

Is there a way I can make each value display on its own line for ease of reading? Something like this:

["kt_login_user"]=>  string(8) "teacher1"  ["kt_login_id"]=>  string(3) "973"  ["kt_campusID"]=>  string(4) "9088"  ["kt_positionID"]=>  string(1) "5" 

Answer 1

Yes, try wrapping it with <pre>, e.g.:

echo '<pre>' , var_dump($variable) , '</pre>'; 

Answer 2

I usually have a nice function to handle output of an array, just to pretty it up a bit when debugging.

function pr($data) {     echo "<pre>";     print_r($data); // or var_dump($data);     echo "</pre>"; } 

Then just call it

pr($array); 

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Or if you have an editor like that saves snippets so you can access them quicker instead of creating a function for each project you build or each page that requires just a quick test.

For print_r:

echo "<pre>", print_r($data, 1), "</pre>"; 

For var_dump():

echo "<pre>", var_dump($data), "</pre>"; 

I use the above with PHP Storm. I have set it as a pr tab command.