Nevar is a small utility to examine value of any variable and generate its description.

This library is available as thunderer/nevar on Packagist.

Call Nevar::describe() method that returns string with the description or 'unknown type' if its type can't be matched:

use Thunder\Nevar\Nevar;

assert('negative integer', Nevar::describe(-12));
assert('empty string', Nevar::describe(''));
assert('callable string', Nevar::describe('strlen'));

For given variable types, Nevar is able to extract following information:

I'm open to any new description ideas - any issue or a Pull Request will be welcomed!