Question

I am working with a 3-rd party library and it makes some random call like this:

$consumer = getConsumer();

And I don’t know what are the values inside the $consumer variable
I tried to do something like this:

echo '<p>consumer: '.$consumer.'</p>';

but that just crashed the page 🙂 What is the real way for me to see what objects and values are in this $consumer object? And whats the best way to extract them?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try var_dump($consumer); or print_r($consumer);.

If it’s an object, you access its parameters like so:

$consumer->parameter