Printing booleans in php

Is there something ready开发者_如何学运维 for printing Booleans in PHP (usually for debug), rather than writing: echo ($flag ? "true" : "false") every time?

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var_export($flag);

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$a = TRUE;
var_dump($a); // bool(true)

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http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

A boolean TRUE value is converted to the string "1". Boolean FALSE is converted to "" (the empty string).

Your current method is probably the easiest method without calling a function.

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You could write a little function - that would save chars and typing!