Re: Is there a way to get a variable name as a string?

From:	Burhan Khalid	Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:23:48 +0000
Subject:	Re: Is there a way to get a variable name as a string?
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Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Daevid Vincent wrote:
Is there a way to get the name of a variable as a string? For example...
Nope, not possible.

Well.... ob_start(); echo '$var'; $contents = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); echo 'Variable Name is : '.substr($contents,strpos($contents,'$')+1);