Variable Dumping Post Requests in PHP

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This is a brilliant way to dump variables to a webserver’s error log in The source of this code snippet. This is especially helpful when experimenting with POST requests in barebone environments.

php 
<?php
ob_start();
var_dump($this);
error_log(ob_get_clean());
30 April 2019 — Written
30 April 2019 — Updated
Thedro Neely — Creator
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