Posted by BoneIdol on 10/10/07 12:00

Anyway to do it? I know you can use a variable's contents as a
variable name with $$name. With something like this:

<?php
function foo($bar)
{
return $bar;
}

$name = foo($variable_name);
?>

I'd like the function foo to return a string of the variable name
passed to it, in this case 'variable_name'. A friend of mine who does
C ++ programming says that pointers are the way to go here,
but as far as I know PHP doesn't support them.

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