Is there a way to disable xdebug's var_dump temporarily?

Question

I want to use Zend_Debug::dump, to keep some variables in the log, but since I have xdebug installed, and xdebug replaces php's var_dump, my values in log are html values produced by xdebug.

I was wondering if there is a way in php to disable this feature, and enabled it again, so that I could put them above and below this line:

    $Message = Zend_Debug::dump($objects, null, false);

Answer 1

Internally Zend_Debug uses var_dump, and AFAIK you can't turn off XDebug's var_dump overloading in runtime.

You can do two thing to get your output without html tags.

1. Disable html_errors by ini_set('html_errors', 0) before dump.
2. Instead of using Zend_Debug, use $Message = print_r($objects, true) - notice second parameter.

Answer 2

I had to add xdebug.overload_var_dump=off to php.ini to disable xdebug's overloading the var_dump() function, permanently for me.