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Question

I am trying to map my data in FTP but cannot hide the output of var_dump. My goal is to do get the output but as a notification in my mail box. Getting it in my mail box is not an issue. But the issue is I am unable to hide the output. As well as getting the output as an hyperlink. So I want to hide but make it as an hyperlink message in my mail box.

For example:

///////Mapping///////////////////////////////////////////
$host=$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$rootpath = '.';
$fileinfos = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($rootpath));
foreach($fileinfos as $pathname => $fileinfo) {
    if (!$fileinfo->isFile()) continue;
    var_dump('http://www.'.$host.(substr_replace($pathname,"/",0,2).'<br>'));
}
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Answer 1

Three options:

1) Use output buffering:

ob_start();
var_dump('http://www.'.$host.(substr_replace($pathname,"/",0,2).'<br>'));
$output = ob_get_clean();

2) Use print_r(). You lose the data types but the values are still there:

$output = print_r('http://www.'.$host.(substr_replace($pathname,"/",0,2).'<br>'), true);

3) Use var_export() (Please upvote @SimonBlok for pointing this out)

$output = var_export('http://www.'.$host.(substr_replace($pathname,"/",0,2).'<br>'));