Re: Re[2]: [PHP] Name of the variable

Dear Coolio, Mostly, you can't, unless the variables you want the names of are also stored in one of the hashes like $HTTP_POST_VARS, $HTTP_GET_VARS, $GLOBALS, etc. Then they are just the keys. So you could have: <?php while (list($key,$val) = each($GLOBALS)) { echo "\$$key = '$val'<br>\n"; } ?> to see all the global variables. HTH, Matt ---------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Leingang http://www.math.rutgers.edu/ Rutgers University leingang@math.rutgers.edu Department of Mathematics "This signature needs no quote." On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, coolio wrote: > Hola Philip, > > Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 4:00:22 PM, escribistes: > > PO> Hi coolio- > PO> You can print or echo them (I will use echo) : > PO> <? > PO> echo $this_is_a_variable; > PO> ?> > PO> or > PO> <? > PO> echo "Hi, my name is $this_is_a_variable"; > PO> ?> > PO> but not : > PO> <? > PO> echo '$this_is_a_variable'; > PO> ?> > > PO> see : http://www.php.net/manual/language.variables.php > PO> see : http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/using-strings.php > > I know how to print or echo the content of a variable. > What I need to know, is how to print the name of the variable. > > If I got $variable1 = 'contenido1' and $otra_variable = 'otro > contenido', I want to show > first variable: variable1 > second variable: otra_variable > > I dont care about the content of the variable. > > -- > bye!, > coolio coolio@mdq.com > > > > [ Part 155: "Included Message" ] >