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sailingdeveloper/var-dumper
===========================

Provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable

v7.2.0(1y ago)015MITPHPPHP &gt;=8.2

Since Nov 3Pushed 1y agoCompare

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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

43

—

FairBetter than 91% of packages

Maintenance39

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity95

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 60.1% 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 ~6 days

Recently: every ~0 days

Total

577

Last Release

495d ago

Major Versions

v5.4.46 → v6.4.142024-11-05

v6.4.14 → v7.1.72024-11-05

v5.4.48 → v6.4.152024-11-08

v6.4.15 → v7.1.82024-11-08

6.4.x-dev → 7.1.x-dev2025-01-07

PHP version history (12 changes)v2.6.0-BETA1PHP &gt;=5.3.3

v2.7.0-BETA1PHP &gt;=5.3.9

v3.0.0-BETA1PHP &gt;=5.5.9

v3.3.8PHP ^5.5.9|&gt;=7.0.8

v4.0.0-BETA1PHP ^7.1.3

v5.0.0-BETA1PHP ^7.2.9

v5.0.0PHP ^7.2.5

v5.1.0-RC2PHP &gt;=7.2.5

v4.4.9PHP &gt;=7.1.3

v6.0.0-BETA1PHP &gt;=8.0.2

v6.1.0-BETA1PHP &gt;=8.1

v7.0.0-BETA1PHP &gt;=8.2

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

debugdump

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