A more pretty/informative Var_dump alternative in PHP?

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raveren picture raveren · Jan 26, 2010 · Viewed 86.3k times · Source

Every decent PHP programmer has a print_r or var_dump wrapper they use, love and assign shortcut keys to, why don't we share our favourite ones.

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raveren picture raveren · Jan 24, 2011

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:

kint

Sorry for the plug :)

EDIT: I'd just like to remind the commenters, that this is not a support forum, if you're having problems/want a feature, please file an issue. Support requesting comments will be flagged for deletion.

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