PHP Debug Bar¶
Displays a debug bar in the browser with information from php.
No more var_dump() in your code!
Note: Debug Bar is for development use only. Never install this on websites that are publicly accessible.
3.x Release¶
Currently is released in January 2026. You can install it with composer require php-debugbar/php-debugbar:^3.
See the Release Notes for more information and breaking changes.
Features:
- Generic Debug Bar for PHP projects
- Easy to integrate with any project
- Clean, fast and easy to use interface
- Handles AJAX request
- Includes generic data collectors and collectors for well known libraries
- The client side bar is 100% coded in plain javascript
- Easily create your own collectors and their associated view in the bar
- Save and re-open previous requests
- Very well documented
Includes collectors for:
- Messages
- Config
- Time
- Memory
- Exceptions
- PHP Info
- Request Data
- Templates
- Object Count
- PDO
- Monolog
- Symfony Mailer
- Symfony HttpFoundation
Checkout the demo for examples and php-debugbar.com for a live example.
Additional collectors are available here: - Twig - Doctrine - Monolog - Symfony
Integrations with other frameworks:
- Laravel
- Zend Framework 2
- Phalcon
- SilverStripe
- Grav CMS
- TYPO3
- Joomla
- Drupal
- October CMS
- Winter CMS
- Framework-agnostic middleware and PSR-7 with php-middleware/phpdebugbar
- Dotkernel Frontend Application
(drop me a message or submit a PR to add your DebugBar related project here)