<p>It looks like using <code>{{ dump(listItems) }}</code> gave me enough to work with. I forgot to mention I had tried this before. It didn't work the last time, but I suspect I gave it an incompatible data type.</p>

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<p>I'm trying to find a way of using php's print_r to output the entries that were pulled from the entries in the database. I'm pretty much brand new to Craft cms coming from Laravel, so a common thing I've done in the past with querying the database is seeing what I got back by outputting my array using either print_r or laravel's dd($array) during testing for a sanity check. I can't seem to find an easy way of doing this in Craft. This is what I've tried so far:</p>

<pre><code>{% set listItems = craft.entries().section('todoList').all() %}

{{ listItems }}
</code></pre>

<p>The {{ listItems }} of course gives the array to string conversion error when rendering the page, so I tried doing:</p>

<pre><code>{{ listItems | join }}
</code></pre>

<p>but that only outputs the title of the entry. Thank you in advance for any help!</p>

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Trying to output contents of array
# Trying to output contents of array

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-01-29)

I'm trying to find a way of using php's print_r to output the entries that were pulled from the entries in the database. I'm pretty much brand new to Craft cms coming from Laravel, so a common thing I've done in the past with querying the database is seeing what I got back by outputting my array using either print_r or laravel's dd($array) during testing for a sanity check. I can't seem to find an easy way of doing this in Craft. This is what I've tried so far:
{% set listItems = craft.entries().section('todoList').all() %}

{{ listItems }}

The {{ listItems }} of course gives the array to string conversion error when rendering the page, so I tried doing:
{{ listItems | join }}

but that only outputs the title of the entry. Thank you in advance for any help!

**Tags:** templating, craft3

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2019-01-30. Score: 1

It looks like using `{{ dump(listItems) }}` gave me enough to work with. I forgot to mention I had tried this before. It didn't work the last time, but I suspect I gave it an incompatible data type.


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