A more pretty/informative Var_dump alternative in PHP? [closed]

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A full year of time and labor after asking this, I've finally open sourced my version of var_dump, Kint. Read about it in the project page, or directly in github.

Here's a screenshot:

Sorry for the plug :)

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My prefered on is the var_dump function, as provided by the Xdebug extension : just install the extension (easy, both on windows and Linux), and var_dump gets a better output :

• better formating
  • HTML
  • colors
• and you have options to tune how much informations should be displayed

And a quick screenshot :

And, of course, Xdebug brings loads of other usefull stuff, like remote debugging (i.e. graphical debugging of your PHP application, in Eclipse PDT for instance), profiling, ...

I wrote my own: REF (demo):

Plans are to add text-only rendering, and display info about the input expression like Kint does...

Here's mine, which I use inline, very useful:

$pretty = function($v='',$c="&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;",$in=-1,$k=null)use(&$pretty){$r='';if(in_array(gettype($v),array('object','array'))){$r.=($in!=-1?str_repeat($c,$in):'').(is_null($k)?'':"$k: ").'<br>';foreach($v as $sk=>$vl){$r.=$pretty($vl,$c,$in+1,$sk).'<br>';}}else{$r.=($in!=-1?str_repeat($c,$in):'').(is_null($k)?'':"$k: ").(is_null($v)?'&lt;NULL&gt;':"<strong>$v</strong>");}return$r;};

echo $pretty($some_variable);

You are looking for Krumo (Warning, Chrome alerts for Malware).

To put it simply, Krumo is a replacement for print_r() and var_dump(). By definition Krumo is a debugging tool (initially for PHP4/PHP5, now for PHP5 only), which displays structured information about any PHP variable.