About this plugin
x. Now instead of using var_dump() or print_r(), you simply use d() with zero, nadda, no formatting required.
Use this tool when you are debugging your website, in place of var_dump(), print_r() and debug_backtrace().
Handy Tools
Some handy tools just for the PHP Developer:
- d( $var ); to render a collapsible UI container which displays your variable data in “the most informative way”
- ddd( $var ); same as d() except that it also executes die() to halt execution.
Here are some variations of d() to give you the display you want:
- ~d( $var ); outputs in plain text format.
- +d( $var ); disregards depth level limits and outputs everything
d( $var ); shows expanded rich output
- -d( $var ); attempts to ob_clean() the previous output (dump something inside of HTML)
Profiler
Kint even includes a naïve profiler, which can help you analyze which blocks of code take longer than others:
Kint::dump( microtime() ); // just pass microtime() sleep( 1 ); Kint::dump( microtime(), 'after sleep(1)' ); sleep( 2 ); ddd( microtime(), 'final call, after sleep(2)' );
See screenshot 2 for what is rendered out in your browser.
Admin Bar
“KINT ACTIVE” indicator displays in the WordPress admin bar to alert you when the plugin is active.