How to check if a string can be used as a variable name in PHP?

Question

In PHP one can use variable variables...

For example...

class obj { }
$fieldName = \"Surname\";
$object = new obj();
$object->Name = \"John\";
$objec         


        

Answer 1

As it was already replied, but not with a complete line of code:

if ( preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*$/','evaluation string') )
{
    // the string is valid
}
else
{
    // the string is not valid
}