Re: retriving a variable name

It sounds like you're asking two different questions here, but try this sample code for a possible answer to one: <? $var_name="foo"; $$var_name="bar"; echo $foo; ?> Happy hacking. Chris Matt Giddings wrote:

Is there a way to retrieve the variable name from within php? Example: $myvar = 'test'; I want to be able to pass '$myvar' to a function and retrieve both the name of the variable 'myvar' and the value of the variable 'test' in this case.