Why does Laravel dd only show two levels? - laravel

Question

When I use dd($myVar) in Laravel the output only shows two levels. Why is that?
The first level is shown expanded, and I can click to expand the second level. The third level is simply summarised with something like array:2 (in the case of any array with two elements).
EDIT:
I noticed that the output of var_dump() was similarly limited. I changed the xdebug depth setting to 10, ini_set('xdebug.var_display_max_depth', 10), which fixed the problem in var_dump, but not dd.

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use ctrl+click to expand all children, you can even search values and variables using ctrl+F
If it doesn't suit you, you can create your own helper that depends on xdebug configuration settings. Add a new file "helpers.php" then autoload it using composer.json
"autoload": {
"files": [
"app/helpers.php"
]
}
I used an anonymous class, you may create a dedicated class to cleanup/reuse code
use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper\CliDumper;
use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Cloner\VarCloner;
use Illuminate\Support\Debug\HtmlDumper;
function xdebug_dd(...$args)
{
http_response_code(500);
$obj = new class {
public function dump($value)
{
if (class_exists(CliDumper::class)) {
$dumper = new HtmlDumper;
$dumper->dump((new VarCloner)->cloneVar($value), null, [
'maxDepth' => ini_get('xdebug.var_display_max_depth')
]);
} else {
var_dump($value);
}
}
};
foreach ($args as $x) {
$obj->dump($x);
}
die(1);
}