debug_zval_dump

Example

Dump the string representation of the internal zend value to the output:

 <span class="token php language-php"><span class="token delimiter important"><?php</span>
<span class="token variable">$a</span> <span class="token operator">=</span> <span class="token string double-quoted-string">"Hello world!"</span> <span class="token punctuation">;</span>
<span class="token keyword">echo</span> <span class="token function">debug_zval_dump</span> <span class="token punctuation">(</span> <span class="token variable">$a</span> <span class="token punctuation">)</span> <span class="token operator">.</span> <span class="token string double-quoted-string">"<br>"</span> <span class="token punctuation">;</span>
<span class="token delimiter important">?></span></span>

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