Is there a Pretty Print Stack Dump?

The Xdebug extension can print stacktraces with a configurable degree of verbosity.

It also offers some additional var_dump() features such as syntax coloring:

Edit:

Regarding the inclusion of Xdebug in a commercial project.

The Xdebug license has only a few terms and seems pretty permissive.

Xdebug is a C extension. As such re-distributing it or part of it in your project may be somewhat difficult. Depending on your requirements I see a few options:

• Have your end user install Xdebug from a Linux distribution package or a DLL from the site
• Distribute .dll and .so files for all supported platforms
• Have your end user build the source code
• Distribute a custom build of PHP

You also have kint (github repo) which has a composer package on the packagist repository

So either download the library manually or with composer, it's just a matter of :

$ composer init
$ composer require raveren/kint
$ composer install

Then, instead of ini_set('display_errors', 'On');, I prefer to use this simple handler in my main (first) include file :

if (  getenv('__project_env__') === 'DEV') {

  error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);

  function shutdown_handler() {
    $error = error_get_last();
    Kint::trace();
    Kint::dump($error);
  }
  register_shutdown_function('shutdown_handler');

} else {
 ...
}

With __project_env__ being set in Apache's Virtualhost (SetEnv __project_env__ "DEV") so as not to pollute the different branches of the git repository where the project lives with configuration items which are by essence environmental

• In DEV : i get my debugging
• In PROD, it's silent by default

Here is a screenshot of how the trace looks (each step is collapsible):

_{(source: github.io)}