php.js : var_export() function

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var_export() function

The var_export() function returns the structured information (only value) of a variable.

Version:

1103.1210

Syntax:

var_export(variable_name, set_value)

Parameters:

Name	Description	Required / Optional	Type
variable_name	The variable being exported.	Required	String
set_value	If this parameter is used and set to true var_export() function returns the variable representation instead of outputting it.	Optional	Boolean

Value Type: Mixed*

*Mixed : mixed indicates that a parameter may accept multiple (but not necessarily all) types.

Example of php.js var_export() function

In the following web document, var_dump() function displays structure (value) of various variables.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>php.js : var_export() function example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../phpjs/variable/variable.min.js"> </script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: green">php.js : var_export() function example</h1>
<h3>Outputs the value of variable.</h3>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
var_name1=678;
var_name2="a678";
var_name3="678";
var_name4="W3resource.com";
var_name5=698.99;
var_name6=125689.66;
var_array=new Array(99,'w3resource',67899.99);
var_export(var_name1);
document.write('<br />');
var_export(var_name2);
document.write('<br />');
var_export(var_name3);
document.write('<br />');
var_export(var_name4);
document.write('<br />');
var_export(var_name5);
document.write('<br />');
var_export(var_name6);
document.write('<br />');
var_export(var_array);
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output of the function:

678
'a678'
'678'
'W3resource.com'
698.99
125689.66
array (    0 => 99,    1 => 'w3resource',    2 => 67899.99  )

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