symfony/var-dumper

Provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable

v8.1.2 2026-07-22 15:42 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.4.1
• symfony/polyfill-mbstring: ^1.0

Requires (Dev)

• symfony/console: ^7.4|^8.0
• symfony/http-kernel: ^7.4|^8.0
• symfony/process: ^7.4|^8.0
• symfony/uid: ^7.4|^8.0
• twig/twig: ^3.12|^4.0

Conflicts

• symfony/console: <7.4
• symfony/error-handler: <7.4

MIT

• Nicolas Grekas
• Symfony Community

• debug
• dump

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-07-29 11:57 UTC

README

The VarDumper component provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable. It provides a better dump() function that you can use instead of var_dump().

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Resources

• Documentation
• Contributing
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