Comments on: Couple of convenience methods to add to your bootstrap.php

By: Angel S. Moreno

Angel S. Moreno — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:57:48 +0000

@petteyg359 great point! thanks for the tip! Did some benchmarks and the performance is night and day, best way to go is definitely non-wrapper functions inside my wrapper functions.

@teknoid if you are too busy with a cakephp-krumo then I could jump in.

By: teknoid

teknoid — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:57:33 +0000

@petteyg359

Exactly, that’s why they are being removed from the usage inside the core. However, when developing they are simply short-cuts and in case of someone accidentally forgetting to remove print_r() in production, can actually quite valuable.

@Angel S. Moreno

Same problem, doesn’t properly display certain values.

A side note, it is actually quite nice to implement a solution like: http://krumo.sourceforge.net/
(Hmm… I should probably do an example for cake…)

By: petteyg359

petteyg359 — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:51:17 +0000

The wrapper functions may save you a few keystrokes, or many if you use them often, but they slow down execution. Using a wrapper function inside of your own function saves you a few keystrokes one time only. Just type the full function name…

By: Angel S. Moreno

Angel S. Moreno — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:46:35 +0000

what about prd ?

function prd($var){
if(Configure::read() > 0) {
pr($var);
die();
}
}

By: teknoid

teknoid — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:42:17 +0000

@CAT Shannon

LOL, Duh… very good point :) Anyways in that case the pre tags are not really needed anyway. I’ve just simplified the function a little. But your suggestions is just as good.

@petteyg359

Thanks for sharing.

By: CAT Shannon

CAT Shannon — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:09:10 +0000

I think there is a small mistake in the vdd function. The close tag for pre will never occur because is after die().
In this way it works fine.
function vdd($var) { if(Configure::read() > 0) { echo '

';
    var_dump($var);
    echo '

'; die(); // or exit; } }

Anyway is not a relevant mistake. You make a great job.

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By: petteyg359

petteyg359 — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:08:10 +0000

Typed too fast. Replace echo $b with var_dump($b) :)

By: petteyg359

petteyg359 — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:07:10 +0000

function vd($var) { if (Configure::read() > 0) { foreach($var as $a => $b) { echo $a; if(is_array($b)) { vd($b); } else { echo $b; } } } }