# phpman > man > Template::Plugin::Dumper(3pm)

## NAME
    [Template::Plugin::Dumper](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Template%3A%3APlugin%3A%3ADumper/markdown) - Plugin interface to [Data::Dumper](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Data%3A%3ADumper/markdown)

## SYNOPSIS
        [% USE Dumper %]

        [% Dumper.dump(variable) %]
        [% Dumper.dump_html(variable) %]

## DESCRIPTION
    This is a very simple Template Toolkit Plugin Interface to the [Data::Dumper](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Data%3A%3ADumper/markdown) module. A "Dumper"
    object will be instantiated via the following directive:

        [% USE Dumper %]

    As a standard plugin, you can also specify its name in lower case:

        [% USE dumper %]

    The "[Data::Dumper](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Data%3A%3ADumper/markdown)" "Pad", "Indent" and "Varname" options are supported as constructor arguments
    to affect the output generated. See [Data::Dumper](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Data%3A%3ADumper/markdown) for further details.

        [% USE dumper(Indent=0, Pad="<br>") %]

    These options can also be specified in lower case.

        [% USE dumper(indent=0, pad="<br>") %]

## METHODS
    There are two methods supported by the "Dumper" object. Each will output into the template the
    contents of the variables passed to the object method.

  dump()
    Generates a raw text dump of the data structure(s) passed

        [% USE Dumper %]
        [% Dumper.dump(myvar) %]
        [% Dumper.dump(myvar, yourvar) %]

  dump_html()
    Generates a dump of the data structures, as per dump(), but with the characters <, > and &
    converted to their equivalent HTML entities and newlines converted to <br>.

        [% USE Dumper %]
        [% Dumper.dump_html(myvar) %]

## AUTHOR
    Simon Matthews <<sam@tt2.org>>

## COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 2000 Simon Matthews. All Rights Reserved.

    This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
    Perl itself.

## SEE ALSO
    [Template::Plugin](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Template%3A%3APlugin/markdown), [Data::Dumper](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Data%3A%3ADumper/markdown)