Kint VS PHP Debug Bar

Compare Kint vs PHP Debug Bar and see what are their differences.

Kint

Kint - a powerful and modern PHP debugging tool. (by kint-php)
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Kint PHP Debug Bar
1 2
2,740 4,157
0.2% -
7.3 8.8
4 months ago 6 days ago
PHP PHP
MIT License MIT License
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Kint

Posts with mentions or reviews of Kint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Kint yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

PHP Debug Bar

Posts with mentions or reviews of PHP Debug Bar. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-28.
  • Is there an equivalent to "console.log" (from JS) in PHP?
    2 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 28 Sep 2022
    You can also try something like http://phpdebugbar.com/ which maybe will be somewhere in the middle.
  • 10+ Best Laravel Dev Tools For Faster Development🚀2021
    13 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2021
    This is a package to integrate PHP Debug Bar with Laravel. It includes a Service Provider to register the debugbar and attach it to the output. You can publish assets and configure it through Laravel. It bootstraps some Collectors to work with Laravel and implements a couple custom Data Collectors, specific for Laravel. It is configured to display Redirects and (jQuery) Ajax Requests. (Shown in a dropdown) Read the documentation for more configuration options.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Kint and PHP Debug Bar you can also consider the following projects:

xDebug - Xdebug — Step Debugger and Debugging Aid for PHP

Tracy - 😎 Tracy: the addictive tool to ease debugging PHP code for cool developers. Friendly design, logging, profiler, advanced features like debugging AJAX calls or CLI support. You will love it.

XHProf - XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP and has a simple HTML based user interface.

Laravel Mix - The power of webpack, distilled for the rest of us.

PHPDBG

PHP Console - PHP Debug Console

Barbushin PHP Console - Handle PHP errors, dump variables, execute PHP code remotely in Google Chrome

APM - PHP APM (Alternative PHP Monitor)

PHPBench - PHP Benchmarking framework