$log = fopen( dirname(__FILE__)."/log.txt", "a" );  
ob_start();
var_dump($result);
$data = ob_get_clean();
fwrite($log, $data);
fclose($log);

Create log.txt in scripts directory and set permissions to 0666 before use.

Dump var into the file in the scripts's directory.

object, file, array, log

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