Outputting a variable name?

[jaelle]

I'm wondering if there is a way in php to output the name of a variable. It would be very helpful for debugging if I could.

 

[KarveR]

echo $variable;



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There's no present like the time, they say. - Henry's Cat.

 

[KarveR]

There is an alternate answer but nothing comes to mind. explain more please.

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There's no present like the time, they say. - Henry's Cat.

 

[KarveR]

sorry try [link=http://uk.php.net/var_dump]var_dump[/url] when you hit a error.

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There's no present like the time, they say. - Henry's Cat.

 

[jaelle]

Thanks! That's very close to what I'm looking for.

I don't suppose you know of a way to save that as a string? I figured out how to do it with print_r(). (Ex: $debug = print_r(get_defined_vars(),true); ), but the var_dump() seems to give better information, so that would be preferable.

Okay, perhaps I am getting overly picky. I just wanted to be able to output it out in a nicer looking manner. ^^;

 

[KarveR]

try var_export() instead.

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There's no present like the time, they say. - Henry's Cat.

 

[jaelle]

Thank you muchly, that works great!