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Asked: 2026-05-25T18:56:53+00:00

Is there anyway to prevent var_dump from printing private vars in a class? I

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Is there anyway to prevent var_dump from printing private vars in a class? I got a private var for DBPASS and this surely shouldn’t be printed when using

var_dump($this->db);

as

["db_host:private"]=> string(9) "localhost" ...user, pass, etc ...
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    Is there anyway to prevent var_dump from printing private vars in a class?

    No, you can’t. Note that private variables were not made to hide passwords – at least not in the sense that you are implying. Arguably they could all the public and it would make little difference to the security of your application, if that’s what you are concerned about.

    I got a private var for DBPASS and this surely shouldn’t be printed when using var_dump

    You have full control over where var_dump() is used, it’s not like it magically pops up to show your password to an end-user. You really shouldn’t have any kind of debug code in a production environment anyways.

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