symfony / var-dumper

Provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable

Package info

github.com/symfony/var-dumper

pkg:composer/symfony/var-dumper

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Installs: 969 504 549

Dependents: 8 812

Suggesters: 165

Stars: 7 425

v8.1.7 2026-09-03 16:02 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

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Conflicts

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

Replaces

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MIT 741a8c4c948b0bb9bd3653daacd3644c73c40ea5

Nicolas Grekas .woop@tchwork.com>
Symfony Community

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-09-15 07:15 UTC

This package is auto-updated.

Last update: 2026-09-26 06:39:56 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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