Description: ------------ The var_dump() function from php now show's a colored output which makes the main regex from the class unusable. all matches are empty, so there is nothing returned. i think at least a pear error should be thrown? i don't know in which php version this has been changed, the documentation seems to be out of date for this change. Reproduce code: --------------- this shows the var_dump() change, copied from http://www.zend.com/manual/function.var-dump.php <?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>

Not enough information was provided for us to be able to handle this bug. Please re-read the instructions at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php If you can provide more information, feel free to add it to this bug and change the status back to "Open". Thank you for your interest in PEAR. I don't see in the official documentation, nor in the source code (see references below), any reference to a colored output for the var_dump function. What's more, the var_dump() function outputs its result in plain text, not in html ! There must be in your configuration something else that is causing this problem (perhaps a customised var_dump function defined somewhere ?). I'm also using php 4.3.9 but I can't reproduce the error. Could you check your configuration, and be more precise about the details please ? PHP_5_0_1 : http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php-src/ext/standard/var.c?r=1.196 PHP_5_0 : http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php-src/ext/standard/var.c?r=1.191.2.4 PHP_4_3 : http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php-src/ext/standard/var.c?r=1.150.2.16

I think I've found the origin of the problem : I've just installed the latest stable Xdebug package from PECL (1.3.2), and I've seen it overrides the default var_dump() function with its own fancy var dumping, without explicitly specifying it in the documentation (except in the changelog). I've reported a new bug in the PECL Xdebug package, and I'll contact Derick Rethans ASAP to see what's the most appropriate answer to this problem.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been fixed in the latest released version of the package, which you can download at http://pear.php.net/get/Var_Dump Fixed in release 1.0.1