Top 10 PHP Debug Projects

Symfony VarDumper

0 7,340 8.1 PHP

Provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable
Kint

1 2,740 7.3 PHP

Kint - a powerful and modern PHP debugging tool.
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
ray

16 545 8.2 PHP

Debug with Ray to fix problems faster (by spatie)

Project mention: How to Debug PHP and Laravel Code? | /r/laravel | 2023-07-08

I'm using Ray (https://myray.app/) from spatie, it's easy to install (composer) and is doing all I need :)

ignition

6 382 7.9 PHP

A beautiful error page for PHP apps (by spatie)

Project mention: The default Laravel error page now offers AI solutions | /r/PHP | 2023-06-16

Laravel's default error page - which is called Ignition - also has a framework agnostic version which can be found here: https://github.com/spatie/ignition

laravel-ray

0 274 8.0 PHP

Debug with Ray to fix problems faster in Laravel apps
php

13 211 7.8 PHP

PHP client library for xrDebug (by xrdebug)

Project mention: About using print_r... | /r/PHP | 2023-04-22

Recently tried this: https://github.com/chevere/xr It's pretty good I think.

PsyshBundle

3 208 0.0 PHP

A command line REPL bundle for Symfony using PsySH.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
frog

2 28 3.0 PHP

Frog - A new way to debug in PHP (by rilwis)
yii-debug

1 28 7.3 PHP

Yii debug panel extension
artisan-cache-debug

1 18 3.8 PHP

Simple artisan command to debug your redis cache. Requires PHP 8.1 & Laravel 9

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-07-08.