Posted by Chung Leong on 10/30/06 04:00

hygum wrote:
> is there a function, that can echo/print the name of an array, so when
> i dump the array, it also says the name? For instance:
>
> echo array_name($myarray);
>
> outputs:
> myarray

This question pops up every now and then. The answer is you can use
debug_backtrace() to get the source file and line number of the calling
function, from which you can then extract the variable name with
regexp. Not a foolproof technique and should only for debugging
purpose.

Do a search for debug_backtrace in this group and you should find a
working example I posted a few years ago.

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