Ever use PHP’s var_dump() or print_r() to debug what is going wrong with that $data you have ?

Well, this simple script acts as the above functions, yours first parameter is your data, and the second optional parameter is stoping the script or continuing on.

The ‘debug_backtrace()’ function will return which file call’s the dump function so you can easily track where your errors are coming from.

	function dump($data = array(), $finish = TRUE) {

		list($referrer) = debug_backtrace();
		$total = count($data);
		echo '
';
		echo '
'.$referrer['file'].' @ line: '.$referrer['line'].'
';
		echo '
';
		$l = 0;
		if($data) {
			foreach($data as $line => $value) {
		        echo '
Debug #'.(++$l).' of '.$total.', Line: #'. $line .':
 ';
				print_r($value);
			}
		}
		echo "
";

		echo "
";

		if($finish == TRUE) die;
	}