Kint - debugging helper for PHP developers

http://raveren.github.com/kint/

Kint for PHP is a powerful and modern, zero-setup replacement for var_dump(), print_r() and debug_backtrace(). You'll wonder how you developed without it.

Installation and usage

<?php
require '/kint/Kint.class.php';

Or, if you use Composer:

    "require": {
       ...
       "raveren/kint": "v0.9"
    }

That's it, you can now use Kint to debug your code:

<?php
########## DUMP VARIABLE ###########################
Kint::dump($GLOBALS, $_SERVER); // any number of parameters
// or simply use d() as a shorthand:
d($_SERVER);


########## DEBUG BACKTRACE #########################
Kint::trace();
// or via shorthand:
d(1);


########## TEXT-ONLY OUTPUT ########################
s($GLOBALS);


########## MISCELLANEOUS ###########################
// to disable all output
Kint::enabled(false);
// further calls, this one included, will not yield any output
d('Get off my lawn!'); // no effect

Furthermore

sd() and dd() are shorthands for s();die; and d();die; respectively.
!Kint::dump() and !dd() will display the dump expanded by default.
@Kint::dump() and @d() will return the output instead of displaying it.

Visit the project page for documentation, configuration, and more advanced usage examples.

Author

Rokas Šleinius (Raveren)

Contributing

I'd really appreciate it if you forked the wip branch when introducing changes. Currently it's located here:

https://github.com/raveren/kint/tree/1.0.0-wip

The stable master branch is usually behind and is updated rarely in big batches of tested functionality.

License