My personal collection of utility functions for PHP

accorelib.php

<?php

class accorelib {

	/**
	 * Prints out contents of variable surrounded with <pre> tags for easier analysis
	 *
	 * @param [Any] $variable - the variable to print out to page
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function pretty_dump(Any $variable) {
		echo '<pre>' . var_dump($variable) . '</pre>';
	}

	/**
	 * Reads whole file and returns content
	 *
	 * @param String $filename
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function read_file(String $filename) {
		$fx = fopen($filename, 'r');
		$content = fread($fx, filesize($filename));
		fclose($fx);

		return $content;
	}
}