This function is similar to the print_r php function: it runs over the elements of an object recursively and put them into a string. The output string will be shown in an alert box. This is very useful to debug javascript and to discover properties of undocumented objects.
/** * Function : dump() * Arguments: The data - array,hash(associative array),object * The level - OPTIONAL * Returns : The textual representation of the array. * This function was inspired by the print_r function of PHP. * This will accept some data as the argument and return a * text that will be a more readable version of the * array/hash/object that is given. */ function dump(arr,level) { var dumped_text = ""; if(!level) level = 0; //The padding given at the beginning of the line. var level_padding = ""; for(var j=0;j<level+1;j++) level_padding += " "; if(typeof(arr) == 'object') { //Array/Hashes/Objects for(var item in arr) { var value = arr[item]; if(typeof(value) == 'object') { //If it is an array, dumped_text += level_padding + "'" + item + "' ...\n"; dumped_text += dump(value,level+1); } else { dumped_text += level_padding + "'" + item + "' => \"" + value + "\"\n"; } } } else { //Stings/Chars/Numbers etc. dumped_text = "===>"+arr+"<===("+typeof(arr)+")"; } return dumped_text; }
This function comes from Open Js site.