From: stepheneliotdewey at gmail dot com Operating system: irrelevant PHP version: 5.2.9 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Add optional paramter to print_r() for basic (X)HTML output formatting
Description: ------------ Output of print_r() is often viewed in a web browser, but in this setting, objects are rendered as long strings that are hard to read, because they have lots of properties, nested objects, etc. It is much easier to view such output by viewing page source (i.e. actual PHP output), since that will take into account newlines/whitespace characters that are ignored by (X)HTML browsers. However, it would be nice to have an optional parameter to make print_r() format its output for a browser (e.g. maybe <div>'s with inline CSS padding to force indentation, or at least <br /> and ). Since print_r() is primarily a debugging tool, this could be pretty handy during development, and could encourage greater adoption of OOP practices. ALTERNATIVELY, a tip should be added to the print_r() documentation page telling users that arrays and objects printed by print_r() can be viewed more easily by looking directly at the source of the output, rather than through a browser. Reproduce code: --------------- N/A, see above. Expected result: ---------------- N/A, see above. Actual result: -------------- N/A, see above. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=48154&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=48154&r=mysqlcfg
