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overlu/var-dumper
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Provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable

v1.0.5(2y ago)01292MITPHPPHP >=7.2.5

Since Nov 21Pushed 2y ago1 watchersCompare

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VarDumper Component
===================

[](#vardumper-component)

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()`.

Resources
---------

[](#resources)

- [Documentation](https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/var_dumper/introduction.html)
- [Contributing](https://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/index.html)
- [Report issues](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues) and [send Pull Requests](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pulls)in the [main Symfony repository](https://github.com/symfony/symfony)

###  Health Score

24

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LowBetter than 30% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~301 days

Total

4

Last Release

824d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18390489?v=4)[lupeng](/maintainers/overlu)[@overlu](https://github.com/overlu)

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Top Contributors

[![overlu](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18390489?v=4)](https://github.com/overlu "overlu (5 commits)")

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Tags

debugdump

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