Printing a structured variable during a simpletest

January 17, 2014

When debugging a simpletest, you might need to inspect a structured variable. I find the easiest way is to print it to Simpletest’s log, like this:

$this->error('<pre>' . print_r($this->$log->getErrors(), TRUE) . '</pre>', 'User notice');

The method name is a bit misleading here: we are not printing an error, but rather logging a user notice.