Zend Studio 9 Debugging - See all of a variables contents

Question

When debugging in Zend Studio 9, if I hover over a variable I can only see a portion of it's content, up to 1024. I have a var that has a ton of text assigned to it.

How can I view the entire contents of a variable in Zend?

Answer 1

When in the debugging perspective, you should have a 'Variables' view and 'Parameter Stack' view (usually in the right panel). It should list all variables in current scope (including globals like the $_POST and $_GET arrays). In either of these you should be able to see the full values being stored--you can even drill into arrays and objects.

You won't have these in the PHP perspective by default, but you can add them by going Window->Show View->Other and selecting them from the 'debug' folder.