It happens that I work with PHP outside of Laravel or Symfony, typically when working on a lib, and I always miss the dump
and dd
function. Do you remember var_dump
or print_r
? I don't want to have to use that!
I found a simple way to always preload PHP library. I shouldn't say preload tho, this as nothing to do with the PHP 7.4 preload feature. It's basically a way to include a php file, before the normal PHP cycle starts. This is especially useful if you're working on a simple 15-line script without Composer.
It's all built-in PHP and it has been here for a looong time: https://php.net/auto-prepend-file.
How to always load symfony/var-dumper
Create a new directory somewhere (typically in your dotfiles/
Run
composer require symfony/var-dumper
Create a simple
prepend.php
with the content shown below
Note: I don't recommend defining theisYolo()
function.
__torchlight-block-[b2145057-9149-4323-817b-e91ac59bc286]__
- Open your
php.ini
configuration file and add the following
__torchlight-block-[dad0091e-dae7-44a6-8a82-c1ea77a4c952]__
- You can now access
dump
,dd
,isYolo
from anywhere, including psysh console!
I have been using this for over a year now, I never encountered any confict, error like "function already defined" or whatsoever.