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* 1Nice and elegant. You might want to change the closing tag in #1 from \ to \. – [Michael](https://stackoverflow.com/users/244549/michael) [Jun 21 '14 at 21:47](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816889/how-to-echo-or-print-an-array-in-php#comment37640303_9816958)
* 1This answer does not address the mistake that OP did. – [Shiplu Mokaddim](https://stackoverflow.com/users/376535/shiplu-mokaddim) [Nov 21 '14 at 17:28](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816889/how-to-echo-or-print-an-array-in-php#comment42647349_9816958)
* 2could you explain how the \\
construct makes this display "nicely?" – [Robin Andrews](https://stackoverflow.com/users/3042018/robin-andrews) [May 28 '16 at 17:04](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816889/how-to-echo-or-print-an-array-in-php#comment62498140_9816958)
* 1\@Robin \ tag displays new lines and tabulation as it's outputed by print\_r(); without \ you would see a messy unformatted bounds of data. To see it formatted you should then view the html page source. – [j.c](https://stackoverflow.com/users/2619679/j-c) [Sep 29 '16 at 9:00](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816889/how-to-echo-or-print-an-array-in-php#comment66826370_9816958)
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If you just want to know the content without a format (e.g. for debuging purpose) I use this:
```
echo json_encode($anArray);
```
This will show it as a JSON which is pretty human readable.[share](https://stackoverflow.com/a/17371991)[improve this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/posts/17371991/edit)[edited Jan 7 '14 at 2:07](https://stackoverflow.com/posts/17371991/revisions)answered Jun 28 '13 at 19:11[](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1362366/mark-e)[Mark E](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1362366/mark-e)2,6351515 silver badges3131 bronze badges
* I wanted to extract some data from a `html - php` document using Cordova `InAppBrowser` `executeScript` method, without `json_encode($array)` I could not achieve that! Thanks a lot @Mark E – [Hamid Araghi](https://stackoverflow.com/users/4411896/hamid-araghi) [Mar 29 '19 at 11:42](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816889/how-to-echo-or-print-an-array-in-php#comment97552237_17371991)
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There are multiple function to printing array content that each has features.
### [`print_r()`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.print-r.php)
Prints human-readable information about a variable.
```
$arr = ["a", "b", "c"];
```
```
echo "";
print_r($arr);
echo "
";
```
```
Array
(
[0] => a
[1] => b
[2] => c
)
```
### [`var_dump()`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.var-dump.php)
Displays structured information about expressions that includes its type and value.
```
echo "";
var_dump($arr);
echo "
";
```
```
array(3) {
[0]=>
string(1) "a"
[1]=>
string(1) "b"
[2]=>
string(1) "c"
}
```
### [`var_export()`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.var-export.php)
Displays structured information about the given variable that returned representation is valid PHP code.
```
echo "";
var_export($arr);
echo "
";
```
```
array (
0 => 'a',
1 => 'b',
2 => 'c',
)
```
Note that because browser condense multiple whitespace characters (including newlines) to a single space ([answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/588362/5104748)) you need to wrap above functions in `` to display result in correct format.
Also there is another way to printing array content with certain conditions.
### [`echo`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php)
Output one or more strings. So if you want to print array content using `echo`, you need to loop through array and in loop use `echo` to printing array items.
```
foreach ($arr as $key=>$item){
echo "$key => $item
";
}
```
```
0 => a
1 => b
2 => c
```
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Did you try using [`print_r`](http://php.net/manual/en/function.print-r.php) to print it in human-readable form?[share](https://stackoverflow.com/a/9816921)[improve this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/posts/9816921/edit)[edited Jul 15 '15 at 14:50](https://stackoverflow.com/posts/9816921/revisions)[](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1980250/kamal-pal)[kamal pal](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1980250/kamal-pal)4,05955 gold badges2020 silver badges3939 bronze badgesanswered Mar 22 '12 at 5:26[](https://stackoverflow.com/users/108561/walker)[Walker](https://stackoverflow.com/users/108561/walker)1,14522 gold badges1212 silver badges2626 bronze badges[add a comment](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816889/how-to-echo-or-print-an-array-in-php#)19
You can use [`print_r`](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.print-r.php), [`var_dump`](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.var-dump.php) and [`var_export`](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.var-export.php) funcations of php:
`print_r`: Convert into human readble form
```
";
print_r($results);
echo "
";
?>
```
`var_dump()`: will show you the type of the thing as well as what's in it.
```
var_dump($results);
```
`foreach loop`: using for each loop you can iterate each and every value of an array.
```
foreach($results['data'] as $result) {
echo $result['type'].'
';
}
```
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```
foreach($results['data'] as $result) {
echo $result['type'], '
';
}
```
or `echo $results['data'][1]['type'];`[share](https://stackoverflow.com/a/9816907)[improve this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/posts/9816907/edit)[edited Mar 22 '12 at 5:47](https://stackoverflow.com/posts/9816907/revisions)answered Mar 22 '12 at 5:25[](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1173667/rezigned)[Rezigned](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1173667/rezigned)4,11211 gold badge1616 silver badges1717 bronze badges
* Thank you for this. Can you tell me how can I echo for example only the type of the Array \[1] ? – [EnexoOnoma](https://stackoverflow.com/users/807325/enexoonoma) [Mar 22 '12 at 5:29](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816889/how-to-echo-or-print-an-array-in-php#comment12505841_9816907)
* what do you mean by Array \[1]? :o – [Andreas Wong](https://stackoverflow.com/users/135448/andreas-wong) [Mar 22 '12 at 5:32](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816889/how-to-echo-or-print-an-array-in-php#comment12505873_9816907)
* @andreas I want to echo only the COMMUNITY or the 163703342377960. Not the entire content of the array but specifically – [EnexoOnoma](https://stackoverflow.com/users/807325/enexoonoma) [Mar 22 '12 at 5:35](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816889/how-to-echo-or-print-an-array-in-php#comment12505903_9816907)
* Try `echo $results['data'][1]['page_id'];` – [Andreas Wong](https://stackoverflow.com/users/135448/andreas-wong) [Mar 22 '12 at 5:36](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816889/how-to-echo-or-print-an-array-in-php#comment12505918_9816907)
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You have no need to put for loop to see the data into the array, you can simply do in following manner
```
";
print_r($results);
echo "
";
?>
```
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I know this is an old question but if you want a parseable PHP representation you could use:
```
$parseablePhpCode = var_export($yourVariable,true);
```
If you echo the exported code to a file.php (with a return statement) you may require it as
```
$yourVariable = require('file.php');
```
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I checked the answer however, (for each) in PHP is deprecated and no longer work with the latest php versions.
Usually we would convert an array into a string to log it somewhere, perhaps debugging or test etc.
I would convert the array into a string by doing:
> $Output = implied (",",$SourceArray);
Whereas:
$output is the result (where the string would be generated
",": is the separator (between each array field
$SourceArray: is your source array.
I hope this helps[share](https://stackoverflow.com/a/56950880)[improve this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/posts/56950880/edit)answered Jul 9 '19 at 10:48[](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1915577/heider-sati)[Heider Sati](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1915577/heider-sati)1,4481313 silver badges2020 bronze badges[add a comment](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9816889/how-to-echo-or-print-an-array-in-php#)-2
Loop through and print all the values of an associative array, you could use a `foreach` loop, like this:
```
foreach($results as $x => $value) {
echo $value;
}
```
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