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SmartDump

A smarter alternative to var_dump for PHP5.6+

The goal is to provide a friendly debug tool that is framework independent and works across multiple environments.

Installing

This project is still in beta. Backwards incompatible changes might be introduced during this time.

Basic usage

By default, SmartDump is configured to detect where you are debugging from and will output either plaintext or html. For example: when you dump from the commandline, a plaintext output is used. But when you are debugging from a browser, an interactive HTML output is used.

There is a main SmartDump class, which provides a friendly global interface to debug a variable anywhere in your code. But don't worry, you can use and configure your own instances too.

Shortcut functions

Even easier are the shortcut functions. These live in the global namespace so you don't have to do any imports when you quickly want to debug a variable.

Available functions:

• smartdump($variable) - shortcut for \SmartDump\SmartDump::dump($variable);
• smartdump_text($variable) - dump plaintext to output
• smartdump_html($variable) - dump simplehtml to output
• smartdump_text_stream - dump plaintext to a file or url
• d($variabe) - dump a context aware format to output
• o($variabe) - dump a context aware format to output, clear output buffer and exit()

TIP - the shortcut function smartdump() uses the global SmartDump class, so you can configure the desired behaviour through the SmartDump class.

Advanced usage

SmartDump will internally convert any passed variable to a Node using a NodeFactory. These Nodes will then be passed to a Dumper, which will accept Formatter to render an output format.

Nodes

A Node is basically an internal representation of a variable. The DefaultNodeFactory has support for all regular PHP variable types like booleans, strings, integers, floats, arrays, objects, resources and NULL values.

Formatters

A formatter formats the Node to output that can be handles by a Dumper. At this time there are only string type formatters, which will render a Node to a string.

By default, the ContextAwareStringFormatter will be used, which will return a formatter based on where you are debugging from.

Available formatters:

• PlainTextStringFormatter - formats to plaintext, for use in commandline and other text based environments
• DomStringFormatter - can use a Markup document to output HTML (or someday XML or any other markup language)
• ContextAwareStringFormatter - switches between plaintext and dom based on the current environment
• CallBackStringFormatter - accepts callbacks to determine which formatter is used

To globally use a different formatter for all SmartDump::dump() calls:

Dumpers

A Dumper will determine how the formatted node will be handled. By default, the OutputDumper is used, which will just echo the output to the screen.

Available dumpers:

• OutputDumper - simply echo's the output
• StreamDumper - dumps the formatted output to a file or stream

To globally use a different dumper for all SmartDump::dump() calls:

Deployment

Don't. Don't deploy debug tools. Which is why I recommend using the --dev flag during installation.

Versioning

SmartDump uses SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Maurice Bonemeijer - Initial work - Bonemeijer

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Links

• Travis-CI build on travis-ci.org
• SonarQube report on sonarcloud.io