Make var_dump look pretty [duplicate]

I really love var_export(). If you like copy/paste-able code, try:

echo '<pre>' . var_export($data, true) . '</pre>';

Or even something like this for color syntax highlighting:

highlight_string("<?php\n\$data =\n" . var_export($data, true) . ";\n?>");

Reusable function:

function highlight_array($array, $name="var") {
    highlight_string("<?php\n\$$name =\n" . var_export($array, true) . ";\n?>");
}

You can do the same with print_r(). For var_dump() you would just need to add the <pre> tags:

echo '<pre>';
var_dump($data);
echo '</pre>';