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[nycphp-talk] Output name of Variable

Brian brian at preston-campbell.com
Fri Jan 31 12:54:53 EST 2003


I was kinda wondering how that worked.  Doesn't really apply to the original 
question then.  Answered one for me then, thanks.

Brian

On Friday 31 January 2003 12:51 pm, Jim Musil wrote:
> I don't think so. I think this would allow the name of a variable to be
> dynamic.
>
> eg:
>
> $foo = "bar";
> $bar = "This is the value of my variable";
>
> ..
>
> echo $$foo;
>
> .. will output "This is the value of my variable"
>
>
>
> Jim Musil
> <jim at nettmedia.com>
> Nettmedia, Senior Developer
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> New York, NY 10001
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>
> On 1/31/03 12:41 PM, "Brian" <brian at preston-campbell.com> wrote:
> > I have never used it, so I may be wrong, but I think what you need is
> >
> > $$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
> >> <jim at nettmedia.com>
> >> Nettmedia, Senior Developer
> >> 345 Seventh Ave., 24th Floor.
> >> New York, NY 10001
> >> Tel. 212.629.0004 x 131
>
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