finding menu hierachy > wp_get_nav_menu_items

Whenever i find myself not sure what kind of data is returned by a function i use my simple ready made var_dump_pre() function which i use heavily in developments, simply paste it in your theme’s functions.php file.

function var_dump_pre($obj){
    echo '<pre>';
    var_dump($obj);
    echo <'/pre>';
}

Usage

say i want to see what wp_get_nav_menu_items actually returns:

$menu_items = wp_get_nav_menu_items($menu->term_id); 
var_dump_pre($menu_items);