Echoing all $_GET values

[Karaethon]

I am testing my app to server transport to verify everything is working, I need to write a loop that takes each value sent via GET and/or POST and then echo each key:value back, how do I step through the $_GET or $_POST and extract each to echo?

Something like this, but what?

<?php
/*I know this is not valid, is psedocoded*/
foreach($key in $_GET as $value){
  echo $key." = ".$value;
}
?>

 

[Karaethon]

Ok, I was almost right on. I got it right except my foreach order was wrong.

<?php
foreach($_GET as $key => $value){
	echo $key." = ".$value;
}
?>

is the correct way. sorry for wasting space on the forum.

[benanamen]

Just use var_dump if you just need to see what the array contains.

[Zane]

I always use this snippet to debug my code / echo out the contents of an array or object or any object type.  It takes a mixed type parameter, print_r

echo "<pre>", print_r($_GET), "</pre>";

 

[chhorn]

i would always recommend using var_dump() because it also shows info on null, boolean and empty string values. At least you can also use json_encode() for this, but it lacks on objects.

[ginerjm]

Rather that being focused on this debugging process, how about setting up what appears to be necessary data input validation to be sure that all the array values exist?

[Karaethon]

I wasn't debugging so much as trying to verify that the app code was sending valid $_GET parameters. The app does all the data valiation, and I verified that side, I just needed to double check that what I 'thought' was being transmitted was what was actually being recieved. I don't have access to the recieving server so I was submitting to localhost to verify before actually submitting to server.