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echo "<pre>"; print_r($myarray); echo "</pre>"; It is really annoying typing those just to get a readable format of an array.
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The print_r() function prints the information about a variable in a more human-readable way.
echo "<pre>"; then you will enable the viewing of multiple spaces and line endings. Without this, all \n , \r and other end line characters wouldn't have any effect in the browser and wherever you had more than 1 space in the code, the output would be shortened to only 1 space.
echo and print are more or less the same. They are both used to output data to the screen. The differences are small: echo has no return value while print has a return value of 1 so it can be used in expressions. echo can take multiple parameters (although such usage is rare) while print can take one argument.
This is the shortest:
echo '<pre>',print_r($arr,1),'</pre>'; The closing tag can also be omitted.
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Nope, you'd just have to create your own function:
function printr($data) { echo "<pre>"; print_r($data); echo "</pre>"; } Apparantly, in 2018, people are still coming back to this question. The above would not be my current answer. I'd say: teach your editor to do it for you. I have a whole bunch of debug shortcuts, but my most used is vardd which expands to: var_dump(__FILE__ . ':' . __LINE__, $VAR$);die();
You can configure this in PHPStorm as a live template.
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