var_export

(PHP 4 CVS only)

Description

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>