var_export

Outputs or returns a string representation of a variable (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)
mixed var_export ( mixed expression [, bool return] )

This function returns structured information about the variable that is passed to this function. It is similar to var_dump() with the exception that the returned representation is valid PHP code.

You can also return the variable representation by using TRUE as second parameter to this function.

Compare var_export() to var_dump().

<pre>
<?php
$a
= array (1, 2, array ("a", "b", "c"));
var_export ($a);

/* output:
array (
 0 => 1,
 1 => 2,
 2 =>
 array (
   0 => 'a',
   1 => 'b',
   2 => 'c',
 ),
)
*/

$b = 3.1;
$v = var_export($b, TRUE);
echo
$v;

/* output:
3.1
*/
?>
</pre>

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