Store contents of an array export into a new variable

[purefusion]

Hi. I'm looking to store the string printed by either var_dump(), var_export() or printr() into a new non-array variable for quick sending of email. Any ideas?

Also, is there such a thing as a "Pretty" Variable Dump? Maybe a loop that would store the array in a pretty string format?

It's not important enough that it needs to be formatted to look nice, but there is a lot of information coming from the form.

Thanks so much!

[trq]

[code]
<?php

  ob_start();
  var_dump($_POST);
  $var = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();

?>
[/code]
The output of var_dump($_POST) is now in $var.

[purefusion]

Thorpe, thank you. Now what happens if I'm already using ob on the page. Is there another way to loop the array contents into a string as Key -> Value without using objects?

Thanks again.

[kenrbnsn]

The [a href=\"http://www.php.net/var_export\" target=\"_blank\"]var_export()[/a] and [a href=\"http://www.php.net/print_r\" target=\"_blank\"]print_r()[/a] function will both send their output to a variable if the second parameter is "true".

So to send in email, you can do
[code]<?php $body = print_r($_POST,true); ?>[/code]
If you just want to display it on the screen, do [code]<?php echo '<pre>' . print_r($_POST,true) . '</pre>'; ?>[/code]

Ken

[purefusion]

kenrbnsn, awesome! Thank you!

Works perfectly :)