How to display a readable array - Laravel

Question

After I write:

Route::get('/', function()
{
    dd(User::all());
});

And after I refresh the browser I get an unreadable array. Is there a way to get that array in a readable format?

Answer 1

dd() dumps the variable and ends the execution of the script ⁽¹⁾, so surrounding it with <pre> tags will leave it broken. Just use good ol' var_dump() (or print_r() if you know it's an array)

Route::get('/', function()
{
    echo '<pre>';
    var_dump(User::all());
    echo '</pre>';
    //exit;  <--if you want
});

Update:

I think you could format down what's shown by having Laravel convert the model object to array:

Route::get('/', function()
{
    echo '<pre>';
    $user = User::where('person_id', '=', 1);
    var_dump($user->toArray()); // <---- or toJson()
    echo '</pre>';
    //exit;  <--if you want
});

---

(1) For the record, this is the implementation of dd():

function dd()
{
    array_map(function($x) { var_dump($x); }, func_get_args()); die;
}

Answer 2

actually a much easier way to get a readable array of what you (probably) want to see, is instead of using

dd($users); 

or

dd(User::all());

use this

dd($users->toArray());

or

 dd(User::all()->toArray());

which is a lot nicer to debug with.

EDIT - additional, this also works nicely in your views / templates so if you pass the get all users to your template, you can then dump it into your blade template

{{ dd($users->toArray()) }}

Answer 3

I have added a helper da() to Laravel which in fact works as an alias for dd($object->toArray())

Here is the Gist: https://gist.github.com/TommyZG/0505eb331f240a6324b0527bc588769c

Answer 4

Weird that nobody pointed out to Symfony VarDumper, simply do:

\Symfony\Component\VarDumper\VarDumper::dump($data);

Answer 5

as suggested, you can use 'die and dump' such as

dd($var)

or only 'dump', without dying,

dump($var)

Answer 6

Maybe try kint: composer require raveren/kint "dev-master" More information: Why is my debug data unformatted?

Answer 7

You can use this code on view.blade. {{var_dump($animales)}}

Answer 8

You can use var_dump or print_r functions on Blade themplate via Controller functions :

class myController{

   public function showView(){
     return view('myView',["myController"=>$this]);
   }
   public function myprint($obj){
     echo "<pre>";
     print_r($obj);
     echo "</pre>";
   }
}

And use your blade themplate :

$myController->myprint($users);

Answer 9

For everyone still searching for a nice way to achieve this, the recommended way is the dump() function from symfony/var-dumper.

It is added to documentation since version 5.2: https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/helpers#method-dd