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>    (PHP 3&#62;= 3.0.5, PHP 4 )</P
>var_dump&nbsp;--&nbsp;Dumps information about a variable</DIV
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>void <B
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>&#13;     This function returns structured information about one or more expressions
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$a = array (1, 2, array ("a", "b", "c"));
var_dump ($a);

/* output:
array(3) {
  [0]=&#62;
  int(1)
  [1]=&#62;
  int(2)
  [2]=&#62;
  array(3) {
    [0]=&#62;
    string(1) "a"
    [1]=&#62;
    string(1) "b"
    [2]=&#62;
    string(1) "c"
  }
}

*/

$b = 3.1;
$c = TRUE;
var_dump($b,$c);

/* output:
float(3.1)
bool(true)

*/
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