What is it?

Kint is a dumper in the vein of var_dump, with keyboard controls, search, access path provision, and automatic data parsing.

Install with composer

composer require kint-php/kint

    
Install a phar file

    


  

Basic usage

Live demo

You have some data and you need to get more data out of it, but you don’t know how the data is structured until you poke around inside it.

    
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