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PHP

Posted by Amber Gibson
Amber Gibson
Courses Plus Student 1,033 Points

The Die and Exit Function in PHP

Please is there any video lessons here on treehouse on the die and exit functions.

1 Answer

jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points
jamesjones21
jamesjones21
9,260 Points

a die and dump function is quite simple to make and understand:

you can call the dd (die and dump) function when you want to use it, pass it a value. It will output the value and then stop processing further code.

The pre tags outputs the contents in a readable format:

function dd ($data) {
    echo '<pre>';
      var_dump($data);
   echo '</pre>';
  die;

}

working example:

$data = [1,2,3,4,5];

function dd($data) {
    echo '<pre>';
        var_dump($data);
    echo '</pre>';
    die;

}

dd($data);
echo "Don't forget to output me";

Outputs the following

array(5) {
  [0]=>
  int(1)
  [1]=>
  int(2)
  [2]=>
  int(3)
  [3]=>
  int(4)
  [4]=>
  int(5)
}

So once the function is called the echo below it does not get called as the script has stopped. Hope this makes sense ?

Kind regards,

James