How to get a variable name as a string in PHP?

Question

Say i have this PHP code:

$FooBar = \"a string\";

i then need a function like this:

print_var_name($FooBar);

Answer 1

You could use compact() to achieve this.

$FooBar = "a string";

$newArray = compact('FooBar');

This would create an associative array with the variable name as the key. You could then loop through the array using the key name where you needed it.

foreach($newarray as $key => $value) {
    echo $key;
}