This function returns structured information about the
variable that is passed to this function. It is similar to
var_dump() with the exception that the returned
representation is valid PHP code.
You can also return the variable representation by using
TRUE as second parameter to
this function.
Compare var_export() to
var_dump().
pre ?php $a = array (1, 2, array ("a", "b", "c")); var_export ($a); /* output: array ( 0 = 1, 1 = 2, 2 = array ( 0 = 'a', 1 = 'b', 2 = 'c', ), ) */ $b = 3.1; $v = var_export($b, TRUE); echo $v; /* output: 3.1 */ ? /pre |