Seamless Laravel 5 / Kint Integration

I love Kint, but it's a little hard to get it to work perfectly within Laravel. This plugin solves that, and adds some new features as well.

Laravel 5 Documentation
Laravel 4 Documentation

Installation

Install with composer

composer require rtconner/laravel-kint "~2.0"

Then add this to config/app.php

'providers' => [
	'Conner\Kint\KintServiceProvider',
];

Optionally setup the config/kint.php file

php artisan vendor:publish

Usage

Use Kint as you would normally.

d($var); // debug dump

ddd($var); // debug dump and die

s($var); // simple print

sd($var); // simple print and die

There is an also an added feature to allow you to easily dump variables from within blade templates. Notice no semi-colon at the end, and must be on their own line of code.

@d($var)

@ddd($var)

@sd($var)

@s($var)

Configure

To enable configuration first create the config/kint.php file in your app.

php artisan vendor:publish

See config/kint.php for configuration options.

See Kint documentation for details on configuration options.

How Do I Override Laravel's dd() method?

There is no clean way. You will have to edit the public/index.php file in your app. Place the following code directly after require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';

/**
 * Override Laravel's built-in dd() method to call Kint::dump()
 */
function dd()
{
    $_ = func_get_args();
    call_user_func_array( array( 'Kint', 'dump' ), $_ );
    die;
}

Credits

• Robert Conner - http://smartersoftware.net

Copyright 2015 Robert Conner, You may use this code under The MIT License (MIT)