Why is my debug data unformatted?

Question

var_dump and print_r are displayed are not formatted when using Laravel 4. How do I format the data to be more readable?

Answer 1

Add Kint to your composer.json by running this on the command line:

composer require raveren/kint "dev-master"

And then try it:

dd( new Controller );

You should see this:

Better, huh?

Answer 2

Use kint

we use should s() instead of print_r()

use should d() instead of var_dump()

ex: sd($arr); like same print_r($arr); die();

Ref: http://raveren.github.io/kint/#configuration