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

I think you want to know variable name with it's value. You can use an associative array to achieve this.

use variable names for array keys:

$vars = array('FooBar' => 'a string');

When you want to get variable names, use array_keys($vars), it will return an array of those variable names that used in your $vars array as it's keys.