[wp-hackers] debugging with print_r

[Keith Constable]

Jeremy Visser wrote:
> Ozh wrote:
>> function wp_print_r($input, $pre = true) {
>> 	if ($pre) echo "<pre>\n";
>> 	ob_start();
>> 	print_r($input);
>> 	$output = ob_get_contents();
>> 	ob_end_clean();
>> 	$output = attribute_escape($output);
>> 	echo $output;
>> 	if ($pre) echo "</pre>\n";
>> }
> 
> Dude, no need for output buffering -- just add "true" as a parameter to
> print_r():
> 
> 	$doesntecho = print_r($input, true);

To be fair, IIRC, print_r() uses the output buffering routines
internally to capture and return the information.

-Keith Constable
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