Posted by Summercool on 10/19/07 00:16

On Oct 18, 5:03 pm, "Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:52:42 +0200, Summercool <Summercooln...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I wonder in PHP, can you have a function like
>
> > print_debug($foo);
>
> > and it will print out:
>
> > $foo is:
> > 3

> No, as it's name should be of utter unimportance.
>
> (Somewhere in this group there's been given a 'solution' for this about a
> year ago I think. It involved using debug_backtrace(), fopen()ing the file
> and reading/parsing the line indicated in that array. Not anything you
> should want to do.)

Coz in C and in Ruby, they are both possible...

in PHP, maybe you can do something like

print_debug("$foo");

and then define

function print_debug($s) {
echo $s, "\n";
print_r(eval($s));
}

?

but is there something that can work better?

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