Laravel Dumper

Improve the default output of dump() and dd() in Laravel projects. Improves the default dump behavior for many core Laravel objects, including:

• Models
• Query Builders
• Service Container
• Database Connections
• Carbon Instances
• Requests and Responses

Installation

Install as a dev dependency:

# composer require glhd/laravel-dumper --dev

Usage

Just use dd() as you would normally, and enjoy the newly curated output! If, for some reason, you really need the full debug output for an object that laravel-dumper customizes, you can do a "full" dump with ddf() and dumpf().

Custom Casters

Please note, the API for custom casting is likely to change. Use at your own risk!

It's possible to register your own casters for any class by publishing the laravel-dumper config file and registering your custom classes in the 'casters' section of the config.

Your custom casters should extend Glhd\LaravelDumper\Casters\Caster and would look something like (this example would mean that dumped User objects would only include a single piece of summary data):

class UserCaster extends Caster
{
	public static array $targets = [User::class];
	
	public function cast($target, array $properties, Stub $stub, bool $is_nested, int $filter = 0): array
	{
		return [
		    Key::virtual('summary') => "$target->name ($target->email)",
        ];
	}
}