12 August 2013

Coldfusions cfDump / writeDump() for PHP

phDump-Twitter-Data

phDump is a PHP-equivalent of Adobe Coldfusion's excellent debugging feature, CFDump.  The screenshot above shows phDump neatly and clearly displaying the complicated nested data structure returned by Twitter's API. A visual tool like this makes it so much easier to understand during development.

I built this to serve the niche group of developers (of which I am one) who have worked seriously with Adobe Coldfusion and grown to love the native CFDump function but who also code in PHP and find themselves wanting the feature available there too!

Download the phDump repo from my GitHub account at github.com/martinjoiner/phDump and enjoy a visually pleasing debugging experience.