By Justin Silverton

Debugging PHP scripts can be a difficult task, so I have written this simple php debugger class.  It will display all GET and POST variables and all the properties on a currently defined object.

The code

(copy this in debug.php)

function DebugClass($class)
{
 $class_vars = get_object_vars($class);
 echo "<b><u>Class contents</b></u><br><br>";
 foreach ($class_vars as $key => $value)
  echo "<b>Property Name: </b>".$key." <b>Property Value: </b>".$value."<br>";  
}
//this displays all get and post variables
function DebugIncoming()
{
  echo "<b><u>GET and POST contents</b></u><br><br>";
  echo "<b><font color=\"red\">GET contents</b></font><br><br>";
  foreach ($_GET as $key=> $value)
  echo "<b>Variable Name: </b>".$key." <b>Variable Value: </b>".$value."<br>";
  
  echo "<br><br>";
 
  echo "<b><font color=\"red\">POST contents</b></font><br><br>";
  foreach ($_POST as $key=> $value)
  echo "<b>Variable Name: </b>".$key." <b>Variable Value: </b>".$value."<br>";
   echo "<br><br>";
}//display all current POST and GET values
DebugIncoming();

Usage

Include the above file from a script you would like to debug.  Also, to print out all of the currently defined properties of a class instance, use the following function:

DebugClass($objectInstance);