How to display a readable array - Laravel

Question

After I write:

Route::get('/', function() {     dd(User::all()); }); 

And after I refresh the browser I get an unreadable array. Is there a way to get that array in a readable format?

Answer 1

dd() dumps the variable and ends the execution of the script ⁽¹⁾, so surrounding it with <pre> tags will leave it broken. Just use good ol' var_dump() (or print_r() if you know it's an array)

Route::get('/', function() {     echo '<pre>';     var_dump(User::all());     echo '</pre>';     //exit;  <--if you want }); 

Update:

I think you could format down what's shown by having Laravel convert the model object to array:

Route::get('/', function() {     echo '<pre>';     $user = User::where('person_id', '=', 1);     var_dump($user->toArray()); // <---- or toJson()     echo '</pre>';     //exit;  <--if you want }); 

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(1) For the record, this is the implementation of dd():

function dd() {     array_map(function($x) { var_dump($x); }, func_get_args()); die; } 

Answer 2

actually a much easier way to get a readable array of what you (probably) want to see, is instead of using

dd($users);  

or

dd(User::all()); 

use this

dd($users->toArray()); 

or

 dd(User::all()->toArray()); 

which is a lot nicer to debug with.

EDIT - additional, this also works nicely in your views / templates so if you pass the get all users to your template, you can then dump it into your blade template

{{ dd($users->toArray()) }}