PHP Helpers: html_print_r
Before I get to the next PHP Helpers function I wanted to mention that I’ve made the code available as a Google Code Project at http://code.google.com/p/php-helpers/. I added specific licensing terms ( MIT style ) – http://code.google.com/p/php-helpers/source/browse/trunk/license.txt. There’s also a changelog available to see when functions were added.
With that out of the way here’s the next PHP Helpers function, html_print_r:
if ( !function_exists( 'html_print_r' ) ) {
function html_print_r( $data ) {
$out = "\n<pre class='html-print-r'";
$out .= " style='border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 7px;'>\n";
$out .= esc_html( print_r( $data, TRUE ) );
$out .= "\n</pre>\n";
return $out;
}
}
I added this because I use PHP’s print_r in an HTML context quite a bit. To make the output look reasonable I was always adding PRE tags, which got boring fast.
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my comment on the html_var_dump would probably be more appropriate here.
printf(‘(pre)%s(/pre)’, print_r( $var, 1 ) );
replace the () tags with lt/gt
Thanks. That’s a smaller version, but my intent wasn’t to make it super small, just super useful :-)