PHP - Outputting an Entire Array with print_r()

Introduction

Use PHP print_r() to output the contents of an array for debugging.

Using print_r() is easy - just pass it the array you want to output:

print_r($array);

The following example code creates an indexed array and an associative array, then displays both arrays in a Web page using print_r().

Demo

<?php

         $authors = array("A","B","C","D");

         $myBook = array("title" => "Java",
                         "author" => "John A",
                         "pubYear" =>  2018);

         print_r ($authors);//from   ww  w.j av  a  2 s .co  m
         print_r ($myBook);

?>

Result

To store the output of print_r() in a string, rather than displaying it in a browser, pass a second true argument to the function:

Demo

<?php

         $arrayStructure = print_r($array, true);
         echo $arrayStructure;  // Displays the contents of $array
?>/*from   w w w.  ja  v a 2s  . c  om*/

Result

Related Topic

• Arrays
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• Accessing arrays
• empty and isset functions
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• Array merge
• Two types of Arrays
• Accessing Array Elements
• Changing Array Elements
• Counting Elements in an Array
• Extracting a Range of Elements with array_slice()
• Converting Between Arrays and Strings
• Converting an Array to a List of Variables
• Write program to combine indexed array with associate array

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