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Stuart Cochrane
Date : May 21st 2003
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This example comes in handy when you need to get a full list of all current state global variables anywhere in your script. The lists will be printed with code highlighting for easy viewing:). Useful for debugging in your browser.

The function simply dumps out a list of $_POST, &_GET, $_SESSION, $_REQUEST, $_COOKIE, $_ENV and $_FILE if available.

Just call <? echo dump_vars(); die; ?> anywhere in your code that you want the current variable state dumped.

There are many better solutions to help with debugging, but this is a quick way to get an applications current state.
This could be adapted to support 3d arrays also!!

<?php
function f_arr($arr) {
   
$fr = "<font color=red size=1>";
   
$fg = "<font color=green size=1>";
   
$fb = "<font color=blue size=1>";
   
$fk = "<font color=black size=1>";
   
$fe = "</font>";
   
$l = "$fg [ $fe";
   
$r = "$fg ] $fe";
   
$a = "$fk => $fe";
   
    if(
is_array($arr)) {
           foreach(
$arr as $k=>$v){
           
$out[] = $l.$fb.$k.$fe.$r.$a.$fr.$v.$fe;
        }
    }
    if(
is_array($out)) {
        return
implode("<br />", $out);
    } else {
        return
false;
    }
}

function
dump_vars() {
   
$out = "";
    if(
$a = f_arr($_SESSION)) {
       
$out .= "SESSION[] ( <br><blockquote> $a </blockquote>) <br>";
    }
    if(
$a = f_arr($_REQUEST)) {
       
$out .= "REQUEST[] ( <br><blockquote> $a </blockquote>) <br>";
    }
    if(
$a = f_arr($_POST)) {
       
$out .= "POST[] ( <br><blockquote> $a </blockquote>)
<br>"
;
    }
    if(
$a = f_arr($_GET)) {
       
$out .= "GET[] (<br><blockquote> $a </blockquote>)<br>";
    }
    if(
$a = f_arr($_COOKIE)) {
       
$out .= "COOKIE[] (<br><blockquote> $a </blockquote>)
<br>"
;
    }
    if(
$a = f_arr($_ENV)) {
       
$out .= "ENV[] (<br><blockquote> $a </blockquote>)<br>";
    }
    if(
$a = f_arr($_FILES)) {
       
$out .= "FILES[] (<br><blockquote> $a </blockquote>)
<br>"
;
    }
    return
$out;
}
?>


Example Usage:
<?php
echo dump_vars();
die;
?>



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