Laravel 5 Collections: Dumping the Collection Contents and Stopping Script Execution for Debugging With dd

The dd method will dump the contents of the collection and stop execution of the script; in this way, it works just like the global dd helper function except that it acts exclusively on the collections internal array.

#Signature

1public function dd(
2    ...$args
3);

#Example Use

In the following example, we will create a collection and dump its content to the screen and stop execution of the script. The last echo statement should not be visible in the browser or terminal output:

1$collection = collect([
2  'key' => 'value'
3]);
4 
5$collection->dd();
6 
7echo 'This should not be visible in the output';

If viewed in a browser, the previous example would output:

1array:1 [
2  "key" => "value"
3]

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