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<?php

/**

 * @file

 * Miscellaneous functions.

 */

/**

 * Drupal-friendly var_export().

 *

 * @param $var

 *   The variable to export.

 * @param $prefix

 *   A prefix that will be added at the beginning of every lines of the output.

 *

 * @return

 *   The variable exported in a way compatible to Drupal's coding standards.

 */

function drupal_var_export($var, $prefix = '') {

  if (is_array($var)) {

    if (empty($var)) {

      $output = 'array()';

    }

    else {

      $output = "array(\n";

      // Don't export keys if the array is non associative.

      $export_keys = array_values($var) != $var;

      foreach ($var as $key => $value) {

        $output .= '  ' . ($export_keys ? drupal_var_export($key) . ' => ' : '') . drupal_var_export($value, '  ', FALSE) . ",\n";

      }

      $output .= ')';

    }

  }

  elseif (is_bool($var)) {

    $output = $var ? 'TRUE' : 'FALSE';

  }

  elseif (is_string($var)) {

    $line_safe_var = str_replace("\n", '\n', $var);

    if (strpos($var, "\n") !== FALSE || strpos($var, "'") !== FALSE) {

      // If the string contains a line break or a single quote, use the

      // double quote export mode. Encode backslash and double quotes and

      // transform some common control characters.

      $var = str_replace(array('\\', '"', "\n", "\r", "\t"), array('\\\\', '\"', '\n', '\r', '\t'), $var);

      $output = '"' . $var . '"';

    }

    else {

      $output = "'" . $var . "'";

    }

  }

  elseif (is_object($var) && get_class($var) === 'stdClass') {

    // var_export() will export stdClass objects using an undefined

    // magic method __set_state() leaving the export broken. This

    // workaround avoids this by casting the object as an array for

    // export and casting it back to an object when evaluated.

    $output = '(object) ' . drupal_var_export((array) $var, $prefix);

  }

  else {

    $output = var_export($var, TRUE);

  }

  if ($prefix) {

    $output = str_replace("\n", "\n$prefix", $output);

  }

  return $output;

}