Re: Printing out or displaying for debugging [message #179846 is a reply to message #179836] |
Tue, 11 December 2012 19:04 |
Robert Heller
Messages: 60 Registered: December 2010
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At Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:59:47 -0800 (PST) C <wrong(dot)address(dot)1(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> What is a good way to see the values of a few variables for debugging?
> I cannot debug locally. I have to put the code on the server in the
> normal Internet site (which does not receive a lot of human visitors),
> so it would not hurt to display the values of some variables for a few
> minutes while I am debugging.
echo '<!-- var1 = '.$var1.' -->';
This creates an HTML comment. Nothing is actually displayed in your (or
anyone else's) browser. BUT if you <right click>=>Show Page Source, you
can see the HTML code, including the HTML comments.
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