hi Daevid FWIW, I was trying to do the exact same thing a while back, and came to the conclusion that it wasn't possible.
Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2005 11:28 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Is there a way to get a variable name as a string? > > > Is there a way to get the name of a variable as a string? For > example... > > Function myname ($foo) > { > echo "the variable name passed in is ".realname($foo); > } > > myname($bar); > ^^^^ > > I want to see printed out: > > "the variable name passed in is bar" > ^^^ > > Dig what I'm trying to do? > > And 'why?' you may ask am I trying to do this... Well, I am > sick of always > putting an "echo 'printing out bar:'; print_r($bar);" all the > time. I want > to make a wrapper function. > > I also have written one for XML that would be nice to make a > NAME='bar' > attribute... > > /** > * Print out an array in XML form (useful for debugging) > * @access public > * @author Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * @since 4.0b4 > * @version 1.0 > * @date 07/18/05 > */ > function print_r_xml($myArray) > { > print xmltag('ARRAY', array('NAME'=>'myArray'), 1); > foreach($myArray as $k => $v) > { > if (is_array($v)) > print_r_xml($v); > else > print xmltag($k,htmlspecialchars($v)); > } > print xmltag('ARRAY', null, 2); > } > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
