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Log an Array - El Forum - 09-07-2007
[eluser]tchule[/eluser]
Hello,
I'm constantly in need for a way to debug and log some Arrays.
I'd like to log it in the log file instead of having to use a var_dump.
I've added the following function to the Commun.php file of code_igniter, it works but it's probably ugly. If someone knows of a better way i'm interested ...
Code:
function log_array($level = 'error', $array, $php_error = FALSE)
{
static $LOG;
$config =& get_config();
if ($config['log_threshold'] == 0)
{
return;
}
$LOG =& load_class('Log');
ob_start();
var_export($array);
$tab_debug=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$LOG->write_log($level, $tab_debug, $php_error);
}Tchule
Log an Array - El Forum - 09-07-2007
[eluser]Paul Scott[/eluser]
You can use var_export to simply return the structure of the array as a string, instead of using the output buffer, and then you could log that. Similarly with print_r.
So you could do something like
Code:
$my_array = array (
0 => 1,
1 => 2,
2 => array (
0 => 'a',
1 => 'b',
2 => 'c',
),
);
$log_my_error = var_export($my_array, TRUE); // Or alternatively, print_r($my_array, TRUE);
// Then you might want to put it onto one line
$log_my_error = str_replace(array("\r","\n"), '', $log_my_Error);