Re: variable names
| From: | Jan-Eric Duden | Date: | Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:58:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: variable names | ||
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your proposal isn't really sophisticated :)
if you could get the pointer of the variable it would have been the key to
find the variable.
Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt McClanahan" <cardinal@dodds.net>
To: "Jan-Eric Duden" <jeduden@whisset.com>
Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] variable names
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jan-Eric Duden wrote:
>
> > Does anybody know if there is a function that returns the name of
variable?
> > I imagine something like this:
> >
> > $myvar="bla";
> > $name=GetVarName($myvar);
> >
> > $name=="myvar"
>
> There isn't really a function to do this that I know of. One (messy)
> option could be to search $GLOBALS, but it'd be highly prone to being
> unreliable. I probably wouldn't suggest using it, just thinking outloud.
>
> $myvar = 'blah'
>
> foreach ($GLOBALS as $key => $val)
> {
> if ($val == $myvar)
> echo "Variable match: $key\n";
> }
>
> Matt
>
>