Krumo

To put it simply, Krumo is a replacement for print_r() and var_dump(). By definition Krumo is a debugging tool (PHP4/PHP5), which displays structured information about any PHP variable.

A lot of developers use print_r() and var_dump() in the means of debugging tools. Although they were intended to present human readble information about a variable, we can all agree that in general they are not.

Krumo is an alternative: it does the same job, but it presents the information beautified using CSS and DHTML.

Except the collapsible DHTML tree built around the structure of the dumped PHP variable, and the improved by the CSS looks, Krumo offers additional useful features.

For example haven't been disappointed that you can not see the name of the variable passed for dumping ?

Calling it many times, you will not be able to know which dump value was provided by a certain variable at a certain time in a certain place of your code.

Well, Krumo can not do that either, but it offers a work- around: it prints the code line that the Krumo call was placed: in this way you can keep track of the origin of each dump you see on the screen.

Another nice addition to the set of Krumo features is the ability to turn it off. When your code gets swamped with a lot of dumping calls, instead of cleaning them up, you can just turn them off.

You go to admit that this beats the alternative of going through your code and removing every dumping route you have ... right ?

A lot of times you need to dump the contents of the superglobals ($_GET, $_POST, $_SERVER, $_SESSION, etc), or see the list of included files, or the declared classes and interfaces, or the defined constants, etc.

Krumo offers an easy, fast and graceful way to do this with just one simple call: see the examples area for demonstration, or just load this page to see the results.