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: 1 004 635 206

Dependents: 8 845

Suggesters: 177

Stars: 7 426

v8.2.0-BETA1 2026-10-26 22:02 UTC

Requires

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

Requires (Dev)

symfony/console: ^8.2
symfony/http-kernel: ^7.4|^8.0
symfony/messenger: ^7.4|^8.0
symfony/process: ^7.4|^8.0
symfony/uid: ^7.4|^8.0
twig/twig: ^3.12|^4.0

Suggests

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Provides

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Conflicts

symfony/console: <8.2
symfony/error-handler: <7.4

Replaces

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MIT 9e6a33527b3b6e7fa04ef8b1f46d0675eca1e710

Nicolas Grekas <p.woop@tchwork.com>
Symfony Community

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-11-04 12:34 UTC

This package is auto-updated.

Last update: 2026-11-04 12:34:19 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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