Code Snippers/PHP

Print Pre

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if ( ! function_exists('print_pre')){
    /**
    * Shows print_r in the pre tags
    * 
    * <pre>print_r($print);</pre>
    *
    * @param string $print 
    * @return pre string OR No data parsed
    */
    function print_pre($print = 'No data parsed'){
        echo "<pre>";
        print_r($print);
        echo "</pre>";
    }
}
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Var_Pre

if ( ! function_exists('var_pre')){
    /**
    * Shows var_dump in the pre tags
    *
    * <pre>var_dump($dump);</pre>
    *
    * @param string $dump
    * @return pre string OR No data parsed
    */
    function var_pre($dump = 'No data parsed'){
        echo "<pre>";
        var_dump($dump);
        echo "</pre>";
    }
}

XML with CDATA to ARRAY

    $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlfile, NULL, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
    $json = json_encode($xml, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
    $array = json_decode($json, TRUE);
    print_r ($array);