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bolt/dumper
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Dumper - a print\_r() and var\_dump() replacement

2.0(11y ago)1122.1k—0%3LGPLPHPPHP >=5.3.3

Since Apr 25Pushed 9y ago2 watchersCompare

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Dumper
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[](#dumper)

While development of Dumper is in flux, this is a temporaray fork suited to the needs we have in Bolt.

This fork has contributions by:

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###  Health Score

37

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LowBetter than 83% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity31

Limited adoption so far

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 60.3% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~32 days

Recently: every ~95 days

Total

18

Last Release

4222d ago

Major Versions

0.7 → 2.02014-10-26

PHP version history (3 changes)v0.2.2PHP >=5.2.17

0.7PHP >=5.3.2

2.0PHP >=5.3.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1835343?v=4)[Bob van de Vijver](/maintainers/bobvandevijver)[@bobvandevijver](https://github.com/bobvandevijver)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3901745?v=4)[Tobias Feijten](/maintainers/tobias-93)[@tobias-93](https://github.com/tobias-93)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1833361?v=4)[Bob den Otter](/maintainers/bobdenotter)[@bobdenotter](https://github.com/bobdenotter)

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Top Contributors

[![scottchiefbaker](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3429760?v=4)](https://github.com/scottchiefbaker "scottchiefbaker (85 commits)")[![bobdenotter](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1833361?v=4)](https://github.com/bobdenotter "bobdenotter (27 commits)")[![mmucklo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/245122?v=4)](https://github.com/mmucklo "mmucklo (24 commits)")[![AlmogBaku](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/98982?v=4)](https://github.com/AlmogBaku "AlmogBaku (2 commits)")[![jkazimir](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/913745?v=4)](https://github.com/jkazimir "jkazimir (1 commits)")[![awelles](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/115194?v=4)](https://github.com/awelles "awelles (1 commits)")[![phasetwo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5147549?v=4)](https://github.com/phasetwo "phasetwo (1 commits)")

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Tags

debugdebuggingprettyprintprint\_rvar\_dumpkrumodumper

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