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Posted by "Rob Agar" on 07/19/05 05:37
hi Daevid
FWIW, I was trying to do the exact same thing a while back, and came to
the conclusion that it wasn't possible.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@daevid.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2005 11:28 AM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] Is there a way to get a variable name as a string?
>
>
> Is there a way to get the name of a variable as a string? For
> example...
>
> Function myname ($foo)
> {
> echo "the variable name passed in is ".realname($foo);
> }
>
> myname($bar);
> ^^^^
>
> I want to see printed out:
>
> "the variable name passed in is bar"
> ^^^
>
> Dig what I'm trying to do?
>
> And 'why?' you may ask am I trying to do this... Well, I am
> sick of always
> putting an "echo 'printing out bar:'; print_r($bar);" all the
> time. I want
> to make a wrapper function.
>
> I also have written one for XML that would be nice to make a
> NAME='bar'
> attribute...
>
> /**
> * Print out an array in XML form (useful for debugging)
> * @access public
> * @author Daevid Vincent [daevid@daevid.com]
> * @since 4.0b4
> * @version 1.0
> * @date 07/18/05
> */
> function print_r_xml($myArray)
> {
> print xmltag('ARRAY', array('NAME'=>'myArray'), 1);
> foreach($myArray as $k => $v)
> {
> if (is_array($v))
> print_r_xml($v);
> else
> print xmltag($k,htmlspecialchars($v));
> }
> print xmltag('ARRAY', null, 2);
> }
>
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