basic question: How can I stop truncation of output length

[kc11]

Hi everyone,

This is very basic I'm sure, but as a noob pretty frustrating. I am working with PHP 5.3 and firefox. When the output of my scripts goes to the browser it cuts off after the first few lines and you see ( for example )

[text]"... (length=145784)" [/text]

I would like the full output to be sent to the browser.

I would appreciate any help.

Regards,

KC

[califdon]

I'm not clear on what you are seeing. Are you saying that literally those few characters are all that is being received by the browser?? Is this what you see when you look at the Source page in Firefox? Absolutely nothing else? That doesn't look like an error message. When you say that you would like the "full output" to be sent to the browser, what is the full output, HTML and text? XML? binary data? Can you show us a (brief) example of your code?

[Edit: it just occurred to me, are you viewing your PHP script using Firefox on your local computer? What web server are you using to view it with? You are aware, are you not, that PHP is not understood by Firefox, it must be sent to Firefox from a web server such as Apache, which parses the PHP and delivers HTML to the browser.]

[Weirdan]

It looks like you're outputting the data using var_dump() (with xdebug installed). var_dump() is a debugging function and, generally, during debugging it's enough to see just a part of the string. Use echo() if you want to output entire string.

[kc11]

Hi Guys,

Thank you both for taking the time to reply. Califdon, I should have been clearer. I am trying to print out HTML, Sorry. Weirdan, you were entirely correct. Changing to echo from var_dump prints out the entire page in my browser.

This helps a lot.

Thanks again,

KC

[alanpoly]

Thank you both for taking the time to reply. Califdon, I ought to have been clearer. I am trying to print out HTML, Sorry. Weirdan, you were completely accurate. Changing to resonance from var_dump prints out the whole page in my browser