Zend Framework 1对象内部的var_dump对象

Question

can somebody please advice how I can var_dump() the Zend_Application object?

object(Bootstrap)[3]
public 'frontController' => null
protected '_appNamespace' => boolean false
protected '_resourceLoader' => null
   protected '_application' => 
   object(Zend_Application)[1]
       protected '_autoloader' => 
       object(Zend_Loader_Autoloader)[2]
           protected '_autoloaders' => 
               array (size=0)
...

I can var_dump the Bootstrap object with var_dump($this->bootstrap('view')); , but I can't figure out how to var_dump the nested Zend_Application object.

Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

First of all, in Zend Framework 1, you can/should use:

Zend_Debug::dump($whatever);

Instead of:

var_dump($whatever);

You can dump application but it will not give you everything. You could change index.php adding:

Zend_Debug::dump($application);

After :

$application->bootstrap()
            ->run();

The most important thing here is to never forget zf is opensource and you can very much go into the code to look at it, drop Zend_Debug::dump() anywhere you like so you could do what you want. Just revert the zend files back to original after you are done.

Last point: It's possible or even probable that you do not need to dump zend application like that. I do not know what is wrong in your code but its doubtful that its "really" a problem with zend. Reading up on the application object, the bootstrap and zend's mvc in general should help you.

Hope this helps!

Dorian M. added: you can also extend the Zend Object to add the dump in your own function and don't mess up the original code