Description: ------------ Hi Derick, The fancy var_dump function, which overrides the default var_dump() in PHP, does not have the same kind of output than the default function : it produces an html dump, whereas the default function produces a plain text dump (without html tags). The Var_Dump package, whose I am the maintainer, closely depends on the output of the original var_dump() function to operate. And because the two results differ, the result of the Var_Dump class using your fancy replacement, does not produce the expected result (see bug http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=2574). I've seen in the changelog, and in xdebug.c that your function overrides the default PHP function. But in the online documentation, you don't explicitly tell that, because the xdebug_var_dump() function is logically used to do this job. So I wanted to have your opinion to resolve this problem smoothly : do I need to take care of the result of your function in the Var_Dump class ; or do you think it could be possible to leave the original function as it is, perhaps with a configuration item telling if the user want to override or not the default var_dump function ? Frederic Poeydomenge ----- PHP Version 4.3.9-1.dotdeb.3 PHP API 20020918 PHP Extension 20020429 Zend Extension 20021010 Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies with Xdebug v1.3.2 Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $a = array (1, 2, array ("a", "b", "c")); var_dump($a); ?> Expected result: ---------------- array(3) { [0]=> int(1) [1]=> int(2) [2]=> array(3) { [0]=> string(1) "a" [1]=> string(1) "b" [2]=> string(1) "c" } } Actual result: -------------- <pre> <b>array</b> 0 <font color='#777777'>=></font> <font color='#00bb00'>1</font> 1 <font color='#777777'>=></font> <font color='#00bb00'>2</font> 2 <font color='#777777'>=></font> <b>array</b> 0 <font color='#777777'>=></font> <font color='#bb00bb'>'a'</font> 1 <font color='#777777'>=></font> <font color='#bb00bb'>'b'</font> 2 <font color='#777777'>=></font> <font color='#bb00bb'>'c'</font> </pre>

Or would it be possible, before the following two lines in xdebug.c : zend_hash_find(EG(function_table), "var_dump", 9, (void **)&orig); orig->internal_function.handler = zif_xdebug_var_dump; to create a link/pointer to the original var_dump() function (e.g. _xdebug_old_var_dump()) ? That would allow to use your fancy var_dump function as usual, but also to call the old function by using something like this : if ( extension_loaded('xdebug') and function_exists('_xdebug_old_var_dump') ) { $func = '_xdebug_old_var_dump'; } else { $func = 'var_dump'; } What do you think of this option ? Regards

Duplicate of bogus bug http://bugs.xdebug.org/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000105