How can I get the name of variable?

[Anon]

Hi!

Can somebody ask me this question:

I want to use function var_dump($var) in my debug print function.

Something like that:
function DebugPrint($var) {
print "<hr>";
print var_dump($var);
}

This returns something like:
string(32) "8e217a72660b869e756e35e0"

I want to put the actual variable name (i.e. $name) before var_dump, but I cannot understand how to get its name.

So it should be:

$hash: string(32) "8e217a72660b869e756e35e0"

How should I get "$hash" as string?

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You can't, because as soon as when you send the var to the funciton, you only send it's content. Inside the function there is only '$var', nothing else.

You could get more by sending only the name of the var and then looking the content up in the global scope, but that only works whenthe function is called from the global scope, and not when it is called from inside another function.

Simple Solution: do a little mnore typing and send both the name and the content of the var to the debugprint function.

[Anon]

Thank you very much.
This solution also got onto my mind, but it was interesting to do this much more elegant.