Shortcut for echo "<pre>";print_r($myarray);echo "</pre>";

Question

Is there a Shortcut for

echo "<pre>";    print_r($myarray); echo "</pre>"; 

It is really annoying typing those just to get a readable format of an array.

Answer 1

This is the shortest:

echo '<pre>',print_r($arr,1),'</pre>'; 

The closing tag can also be omitted.

Answer 2

Nope, you'd just have to create your own function:

function printr($data) {    echo "<pre>";       print_r($data);    echo "</pre>"; } 

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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.