Laravel Artisan Tinker: The dump Command

The dump command can be used to display information about a particular variable or class instance within the console window. It will display the information using Symfony's VarDumper console component:

1PHP Fatal error:  Class 'User' not found in eval()'d code on line 1
2>>> $user = new App\User;
3=> App\User {#651}
4>>> dump $user
5App\User {#651}
6>>>

It also import to note that since the Tinker REPL is responding to commands within the context of a Laravel application, the dd helper function is also available, if its output proves useful:

 1>>> dd($user)
 2App\User {#651
 3  #fillable: array:3 [
 4    0 => "name"
 5    1 => "email"
 6    2 => "password"
 7  ]
 8  #hidden: array:2 [
 9    0 => "password"
10    1 => "remember_token"
11  ]
12  #connection: null
13  #table: null
14  #primaryKey: "id"
15  #keyType: "int"
16  #perPage: 15
17  +incrementing: true
18  +timestamps: true
19  #attributes: []
20  #original: []
21  #relations: []
22  #visible: []
23  #appends: []
24  #guarded: array:1 [
25    0 => "*"
26  ]
27  #dates: []
28  #dateFormat: null
29  #casts: []
30  #touches: []
31  #observables: []
32  #with: []
33  #morphClass: null
34  +exists: false
35  +wasRecentlyCreated: false
36}

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