IQ Development

Well here's an handy little function we've been using in projects for a while. It nicely outputs your array or object into the flow of data making life that little easier. There are loads of vars that you can pop into the function to configure the display too and get around CSS styling issues (← indicates long lines that have been wrapped to the next line).

function debug($var = NULL)
{ 
  $var = print_r($var, true);
  foreach (func_get_args() as $key => $value)
  {
    if (is_bool($value) && $value === true && ←
        !isset($plain)) $plain = true;
    if (is_string($value) && !empty($value) && ←
        !isset($title)) $title = $value;
    if (is_int($value) && !empty($value) && ←
        !isset($font_size)) $font_size = $value;
    } 
  if (!isset($plain))
  {
    $var = preg_replace_callback("/[[a-zA-Z0-9 _]*]/", ←
        create_function('$matches', ←
        'return "[<span style="color:#990000;"><b>". ←
        substr($matches[0], 1, strlen($matches[0])-2) ←
        ."</b></span>]";'), $var);
    $var = preg_replace_callback("/=>.*/", ←
        create_function('$matches', 'return "=> ←
        <span style="color:#003399;"><b>" ←
        . trim(substr($matches[0], 3, ←
        strlen($matches[0]))) ."</b></span>";'), $var);
    $var = preg_replace("/)|(/", "<b>\0</b>", $var);
    if (isset($title) && !empty($title)) ←
        $var = preg_replace("/^Array/i", ←
        "<span style="color:#003399; ←
        font-weight:bold;">\0:</span> ←
        <i><b>{$title}</b></i>", $var);
    else $var = preg_replace("/^Array/", ←
        "<span style="color:#003399;"> ←
        <b>\0</b></span>", $var); 
    echo "<pre style="font:". (isset($font_size) ←
        ? $font_size : "13") ."px 'Courier New', ←
        Courier, mono; background:#F3F3F3; ←
        width:95%; display:block; padding:10px; ←
        margin:10px; border:2px solid #A5A5A5;">" ←
        . $var . "</pre>"; 
  }
  else
  {
    if (isset($title) && !empty($title)) ←
        $var = preg_replace("/^Array/i", ←
         "\0: {$title}", $var);
    echo "<pre>". $var . "</pre>";
  }
}