Making PHP var_dump() values display one line per value

Question

When I echo var_dump($_variable), I get one long, wrapping line with all varable\'s and values like

[\"kt_login_user\"]=>  string(8) \"teacher1\" [\"kt_lo         


        

Answer 1

var_export will give you a nice output. Examples from the docs:

$a = array (1, 2, array ("a", "b", "c"));
echo '<pre>' . var_export($a, true) . '</pre>';

Will output:

array (
  0 => 1,
  1 => 2,
  2 => 
  array (
    0 => 'a',
    1 => 'b',
    2 => 'c',
  ),
)

Answer 2

I did a similar solution. I've created a snippet to replace 'vardump' with this:

foreach ($variable as $key => $reg) {
    echo "<pre>{$key} => '{$reg}'</pre>";
}
var_dump($variable);die;

Ps: I'm repeating the data with the last var_dump to get the filename and line

So this: Became this:

Let me know if this will help you.

Answer 3

Personally I like the replacement function provided by Symfony's var dumper component

Install with composer require symfony/var-dumper and just use dump($var)

It takes care of the rest. I believe there's also a bit of JS injected there to allow you to interact with the output a bit.

Answer 4

Wrap it in <pre> tags to preserve formatting.

Answer 5

I really love var_export(). If you like copy/paste-able code, try:

echo '<pre>' . var_export($data, true) . '</pre>';

Or even something like this for color syntax highlighting:

highlight_string("<?php\n\$data =\n" . var_export($data, true) . ";\n?>");

Answer 6

For devs needing something that works in the view source and the CLI, especially useful when debugging unit tests.

echo vd([['foo'=>1, 'bar'=>2]]);

function vd($in) {
  ob_start(); 
  var_dump($in);
  return "\n" . preg_replace("/=>[\r\n\s]+/", "=> ", ob_get_clean());
}

Yields:

array(1) {
  [0] => array(2) {
    'foo' => int(1)
    'bar' => int(2)
  }
}