[php] How to display a readable array - Laravel

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?

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()) }}

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

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

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

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);

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

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

dd($var)

or only 'dump', without dying,

dump($var)