Better/additional type of displaying complex (serialized) values

[versusbassz]

Probably, like in https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-metadata/ (github) or in symfony/var-dumper or smth else.

Docs

• https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php --- see comments, they are useful

Solutions

(if we discuss unserialize results)

• https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/var_dumper.html (too much)
  • https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/var_dumper/advanced.html
  • https://github.com/symfony/var-dumper
• http://krumo.sourceforge.net/ (old ???)
  • https://github.com/kktsvetkov/krumo
  • http://krumo.kaloyan.info/
• https://github.com/kint-php/kint
• https://github.com/woodrowshigeru/InteractiveVarDump
• https://github.com/ospinto/dBug (old)
• https://github.com/hazardland/debug.php
• https://github.com/uuf6429/nice_r (old, archived)
• https://github.com/builtbybrayne/neat_html (without examples)

improved var_export()

• https://github.com/brick/varexporter
  • Question 🙋 : differences to VarExporter from Symfony?  brick/varexporter#15
• https://github.com/symfony/var-exporter
• https://externals.io/message/112967

Also

• https://github.com/pradosoft/prado/blob/master/framework/Util/TVarDumper.php
• https://gist.github.com/justinhernandez/630770 (prettifying of var_export() )
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/6658706 (custom json prettifying function)
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/32327674 (custom variable dump function)
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/27343895 (custom variable dump function, to html)
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/26622751 (custom variable dump function, to html)
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/32514590 (custom variable dump function, to plain text)
• FirePHP (it isn't for current case, but it exists)
• xdebug (yeaah)

Links

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1168175/is-there-a-pretty-print-for-php
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2141585/a-more-pretty-informative-var-dump-alternative-in-php
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6292164/using-print-r-and-var-dump-with-circular-reference
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/888/how-do-you-debug-php-scripts
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/36131176