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[nycphp-talk] Output name of Variable

Brian brian at preston-campbell.com
Fri Jan 31 12:40:36 EST 2003


I have never used it, so I may be wrong, but I think what you need is

$$variable

On Friday 31 January 2003 12:37 pm, Jim Musil wrote:
> It seems like it would be helpful if there were a way to grab the name
> assigned to a variable and output it. Is there already a function like
> this?
>
> I would use this mainly for tracing and reporting. So, if I had a simple
> function show_variable($var), it would not only output the value assigned
> to the variable, but would also show the name of the variable itself.
>
> Am I missing it?
>
>
> Jim Musil
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