jspeedz/debug-pooper-symfony

Some more debugging methods to be used in a symfony framework (or standalone)

0.0.14 2026-01-28 11:00 UTC

Requires

• ext-dom: *
• ext-simplexml: *

Requires (Dev)

• php: >=8.1
• ext-pdo: >=8.1
• doctrine/dbal: ^4
• php-coveralls/php-coveralls: 2.9
• phpunit/phpunit: ^12.5
• symfony/var-dumper: ^6.0

MIT

• jspeedz

• debug
• dump

README

Tired of using symfony's dump(); method? Use 💩(); instead!

More useful features

Dumping prepared statements

Dumping prepared statements into a readable, and usually executable SQL strings can be useful.

Example 1:

dumpQuery(
    'SELECT 1 FROM x WHERE y = ?',
    [
        1234
    ],
    [
        \Doctrine\DBAL\ParameterType::INTEGER
    ]
);

Result:

SELECT 1 FROM x WHERE y = 1234

Example 2:

dumpQuery(
    'SELECT 1 FROM x WHERE y = :some_named_value',
    [
        'some_named_value' => 1234
    ],
    [
        \Doctrine\DBAL\ParameterType::INTEGER
    ]
);

Result:

SELECT 1 FROM x WHERE y = 1234

Dumping request information

dumpRequest();

Result:

To be determined..

Dumping simple XML element objects

Converting and dumping SimpleXmlObjects into a readable string.

Example 1:

dumpSimpleXmlElement(
    simplexml_load_string('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><root><someElement>someValue</someElement></root>')
);

Result:

[
    Element {
        Name: 'root'
        String Content: ''
        Content in Default Namespace
            Children: 1 - 1 'someElement'
            Attributes: 0
    }
]

Dumping simple XML element object trees

Converting and dumping SimpleXmlObjects into a readable tree string.

Example 1:

dumpSimpleXmlElementTree(
    simplexml_load_string('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><root><someElement>someValue</someElement></root>')
);

Result:

   [0] // <root>
   	->someElement[0]
   		(string) 'someValue' (9 chars)

Utilities

Timing a block of code

$timer = debugTimer();
sleep(1);
$timeInMs = $timer();

Code templates

PhpStorm Live templates

if($this->container->getParameter('kernel.environment') === 'dev') {
    💩($END$);
    die(__FILE__ . ':' . __LINE__);
}

if($this->container->getParameter('kernel.environment') === 'dev') {
    dumpQuery($END$);
    die(__FILE__ . ':' . __LINE__);
}

if($this->container->getParameter('kernel.environment') === 'dev') {
    dumpRequest();
    die(__FILE__ . ':' . __LINE__);
}

if($this->container->getParameter('kernel.environment') === 'dev') {
    $timer = debugTimer();
    // Do some work
    💩($END$);
    $taskTookMs = $timer();
    echo 'Completed task in ' . $taskTookMs . 'ms!' . PHP_EOL;
    die(__FILE__ . ':' . __LINE__);
}

if($this->container->getParameter('kernel.environment') === 'dev') {
    dumpSimpleXmlElement($END$);
    die(__FILE__ . ':' . __LINE__);
}

if($this->container->getParameter('kernel.environment') === 'dev') {
    dumpSimpleXmlElementTree($END$);
    die(__FILE__ . ':' . __LINE__);
}

Install

Please only install this package for development:

composer require --dev jspeedz/debug-pooper-symfony

Requirements

• Symfony 3.3+
• PHP 8.1+
• Doctrine DBAL 4+