Dumper helper

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1Overview

This helper is used to write the contents of a variable, in a more usable style than PHP's native print_r() and var_dump() functions.

It can generate a stream in plain text, ANSI-formatted text or HTML.

The static methods dumpText(), dumpAnsi() and dumpHtml() are used to generate a dump directly from a variable. The static die() method is used to write a dump from a variable and then exit.

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2Example data

Here's the data used in the following examples:

class Foo {
    protected int $bb = 12;
    public string $aa = 'abcdef';
    static public float $cc = 12.3;
}

$foo = new Foo();
$var = [
    1,
    'bar' => 2.34,
    [
        'baz',
        [123, 'fubar', 'qux'],
    ],
    "abc\ndef\nghi",
    $foo,
];

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3die(): dump and stop processing

The static die() method writes the contents of a variable (adapted to the environment, like the dump() method below), then stops processing (call exit(1)).

Example of use:

use \Temma\Utils\Dumper as TµDumper;

TµDumper::die($var);

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4dump(): adaptive generation

The static dump() method detects whether the code is running on the command line or in a web environment. Accordingly, it calls the dumpAnsi() or dumpHtml() method (see these methods below).

Example of use:

use \Temma\Utils\Dumper as TµDumper;

$text = TµDumper::dump($var);
print($text);

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5dumpText(): plain text generation

Example of use:

$text = \Temma\Utils\Dumper::dumpText($var);
print($text);

Resultat:

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6dumpAnsi(): ANSI text generation

Example of use:

$text = \Temma\Utils\Dumper::dumpAnsi($var);
print($text);

Resultat:

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7dumpHtml(): HTML generation

Example of use:

$text = \Temma\Utils\Dumper::dumpHtml($var);
print($text);

Resultat: