I’ve been working with Yii framework version 2.0 for a few days now, and I find Yii’s Debugger and vardumper function are extremely uncomfortable!
Since for the sake of Simplicity and Quick Development, I’ve created a helper for those who use Yii. You can just call dd($var1, $var2, ….); for dump & die or d($var1, $var2, ….); for dump data.
Installation:
- Create a file so called functions.php in
/common/config/
- Paste those code into function.php then save it (please re-format those lines of code, stupid wp.com >:( )
<?php
/*
* Code by DangNH
* Date: Apr 4, 2016
*/
/**
* Debug function
* d($var);
*/
function d() {
echo '<pre>';
for ($i = 0; $i < func_num_args(); $i++) {
yii\helpers\VarDumper::dump(func_get_arg($i), 10, true);
}
echo '</pre>';
}
/**
* Debug function with die() after
* dd($var);
*/
function dd() {
for ($i = 0; $i < func_num_args(); $i++) {
d(func_get_arg($i));
}
die();
}
- Now, edit bootstrap.php in
/common/config/bootstrap.php
and then add this line of code to the top:
require('functions.php'); //add custom helper functions to the whole application
like so
Voila! Now you can call d($var1, $var2, $varx); for dump or dd($var1, $var2, $varx) for dump then die anywhere in your application!
Sample result:
