Posted by Tyno Gendo on 04/11/07 14:58

mickysoft.org@gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 11, 5:38 pm, Tyno Gendo <you@localhost> wrote:
>> I don't really need to do this, but I was wondering. Is there some way
>> of obtaining a list of all the variables that have been declared in a
>> PHP script ?
>>
>> Ie. for globals you have $_GLOBAL, is there something that would let you
>> know the name of all variables that have been declared?
>>
>> Ta.
>
> get_defined_vars
>
> (PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)
>
> get_defined_vars - Returns an array of all defined variables
> Description
> array get_defined_vars ( void )
>
> This function returns a multidimensional array containing a list of
> all defined variables, be them environment, server or user-defined
> variables, within the scope that get_defined_vars() is called.
>

Interesting. And a function for getting defined functions and
classes... nice. As I say, don't actually need to use them at the
moment but that's good to know they are there!

So many functions, I should randomly read through the manual and ponder
over what's there :-)

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