var_dump has unreadable output

Question

I have a method to dump a var_dump output to a file, as such:

function dumpToFile($object) {
    $file = "c:/tmp/php.log";
    ob_start();
    var_dump($object);
    $output = ob_get_clean();

    $fh = fopen($file, "a+");
    fwrite($fh, $output."\r\n");

}

Out of nowhere, the output of this is always starting with a tag like this and has some characters that are HTML encoded, like &quot

<pre class='xdebug-var-dump'> dump content... </pre>

I don't remember changing the PHP.ini file, any ideas ? I'm using php-cgi.exe under Windows.

var_dump itself outputs the garbled data, so it's not my method as far as I can see.

As you may guess from the class name in `pre` - it's `xdebug` that does that. — zerkms, Dec 11 '15 at 21:43
Right. I just commented out all the keys in `[XDebug]` config section in PHP.ini and that works. No idea how suddenly this was turned on. — Francis Ducharme, Dec 11 '15 at 21:46

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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Seems like your xdebug has been enabled. See below post on how to disable:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/8754934

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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answered Dec 11 '15 at 22:01

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