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Re: print out variable name as well as its content

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On Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 8:03:54 PM UTC-4, Rik Wasmus wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:52:42 +0200, Summercool <Summercoolness@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> > I wonder in PHP, can you have a function like
> >
> >   print_debug($foo);
> >
> > and it will print out:
> >
> > $foo is:
> > 3
> >
> > that is, it will print out, most importantly, the variable name, as
> > well as its content.
> >
> 
> No, as it's name should be of utter unimportance.
> 
> (Somewhere in this group there's been given a 'solution' for this about a  
> year ago I think. It involved using debug_backtrace(), fopen()ing the file  
> and reading/parsing the line indicated in that array. Not anything you  
> should want to do.)
> 
> As said, the variable name should be of no importance. If you're trying to  
> pinpoint changes in your script you can either use __FILE__ & __LINE__  
> along with the output, of use the debug_backtrace() mentioned earlier in a  
> function to output the file & line it was called.
> -- 
> Rik Wasmus

This may be true in most cases, but I'm running into this situation now.  It's a situation whereby I'm grabbing field names from a database and assigning them to a variable $X.  I need to see as I pass through each field if it's giving the $X variable the name of each field as it's variable name.  I'm trying to dynamically create variables based on those field names.  I've done this, I think...but I need to test it.  Simply doing an ECHO '$X'; only shows me "$X," which means what?...that it's not working or that it's simply treating ECHO '$X' as an explicit vs the actual variable name?

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Re: print out variable name as well as its content sendtorobert@gmail.com - 2016-09-09 08:23 -0700
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