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JavaScript data formatting/pretty printer
I am getting a bit tired of looking at unformatted json blobs in FireBug.
Does anyone know an equivalent to PHP's print_r() for jQuery?
Something that would recursively make a display string from an object or array, that I could display on the page for quick debugging?
Thanks!
console.log is what I most often use when debugging.
I was able to find this jQuery extension though.
You could use very easily reflection to list all properties, methods and values.
For Gecko based browsers you can use the .toSource() method:
var data = new Object();
data["firstname"] = "John";
data["lastname"] = "Smith";
data["age"] = 21;
alert(data.toSource()); //Will return "({firstname:"John", lastname:"Smith", age:21})"
But since you use Firebug, why not just use console.log?
Look at this: http://phpjs.org/functions/index and find for print_r or use console.log() with firebug.