3

Is there any way to get the refcount value reported by debug_zval_dump without all the additional information returned by that function; e.g. by an alternative function or some truncation of its output? I am using the refcount as per the suggested solution to the problem Detecting whether a PHP variable is a reference / referenced. As such, all I require is the reference count. The structure I am examining is huge so (a) getting the entire structure seems like overkill and (b) I believe I've seen cases where the size has caused problems and bypassing the output buffer (NB: No chunk_size had been set for the ob_start).

Community
  • 1
  • 1
borrible
  • 17,120
  • 7
  • 53
  • 75
  • There's no way without a third party extension. What exactly do you want to do with the `refcount`? – netcoder Jun 17 '11 at 13:37
  • @netcoder - I want to solve the problem in the question to which I linked. I'm hitting issues with large data structures. – borrible Jun 17 '11 at 13:53
  • [This question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4110973/compare-php-arrays-using-memory-references) may interest you. – netcoder Jun 17 '11 at 14:08

0 Answers0