我真的看不出用例……如果你将输入print_var_name($foobar)什么那么难(和不同)输入打印(“foobar”)代替?

因为即使你要在函数中使用这个，你也会得到变量的本地名称…

无论如何，这是反射手册，以防你需要什么。

PHP中没有可以输出变量名的预定义函数。但是，您可以使用get_defined_vars()的结果，该结果返回范围内定义的所有变量，包括名称和值。这里有一个例子:

<?php
    // Function for determining the name of a variable
    function getVarName(&$var, $definedVars=null) {
        $definedVars = (!is_array($definedVars) ? $GLOBALS : $definedVars);
        $val = $var;
        $rand = 1;
        while (in_array($rand, $definedVars, true)) {
            $rand = md5(mt_rand(10000, 1000000));
        }
        $var = $rand;
         
        foreach ($definedVars as $dvName=>$dvVal) {
            if ($dvVal === $rand) {
                $var = $val;
                return $dvName;
            }
        }
         
        return null;
    }
 
    // the name of $a is to be determined.   
    $a = 1;
     
    // Determine the name of $a
    echo getVarName($a);
?>

阅读更多在如何获得一个变量名作为一个字符串在PHP?

许多回复质疑这样做的用处。然而，获取变量的引用是非常有用的。特别是在有对象和$this的情况下。我的解决方案适用于对象，以及属性定义的对象:

function getReference(&$var)
{
    if(is_object($var))
        $var->___uniqid = uniqid();
    else
        $var = serialize($var);
    $name = getReference_traverse($var,$GLOBALS);
    if(is_object($var))
        unset($var->___uniqid);
    else
        $var = unserialize($var);
    return "\${$name}";    
}

function getReference_traverse(&$var,$arr)
{
    if($name = array_search($var,$arr,true))
        return "{$name}";
    foreach($arr as $key=>$value)
        if(is_object($value))
            if($name = getReference_traverse($var,get_object_vars($value)))
                return "{$key}->{$name}";
}

上面的例子:

class A
{
    public function whatIs()
    {
        echo getReference($this);
    }
}

$B = 12;
$C = 12;
$D = new A;

echo getReference($B)."<br/>"; //$B
echo getReference($C)."<br/>"; //$C
$D->whatIs(); //$D

似乎没有人提到这是a)困难和b)不明智的根本原因:

A "variable" is just a symbol pointing at something else. In PHP, it internally points to something called a "zval", which can actually be used for multiple variables simultaneously, either because they have the same value (PHP implements something called "copy-on-write" so that $foo = $bar doesn't need to allocate extra memory straight away) or because they have been assigned (or passed to a function) by reference (e.g. $foo =& $bar). So a zval has no name. When you pass a parameter to a function you are creating a new variable (even if it's a reference). You could pass something anonymous, like "hello", but once inside your function, it's whatever variable you name it as. This is fairly fundamental to code separation: if a function relied on what a variable used to be called, it would be more like a goto than a properly separate function. Global variables are generally considered a bad idea. A lot of the examples here assume that the variable you want to "reflect" can be found in $GLOBALS, but this will only be true if you've structured your code badly and variables aren't scoped to some function or object. Variable names are there to help programmers read their code. Renaming variables to better suit their purpose is a very common refactoring practice, and the whole point is that it doesn't make any difference.

现在，我理解这种调试的愿望(尽管一些建议的用法远远超出了这一点)，但作为一种通用的解决方案，它实际上并没有你想象的那么有用:如果你的调试函数说你的变量是“$file”，那仍然可能是你代码中数十个“$file”变量中的任何一个，或者一个你称为“$filename”的变量，但传递给一个参数为“$file”的函数。

更有用的信息是在代码中调用调试函数的位置。因为你可以在你的编辑器中快速找到它，你可以看到你为自己输出的变量，甚至可以一次性将整个表达式传递给它(例如debug('$foo + $bar = ')。($foo + $bar))。

为此，你可以在调试函数的顶部使用这段代码:

$backtrace = debug_backtrace();
echo '# Debug function called from ' . $backtrace[0]['file'] . ' at line ' . $backtrace[0]['line'];

我真的看不出用例……如果你将输入print_var_name($foobar)什么那么难(和不同)输入打印(“foobar”)代替?

因为即使你要在函数中使用这个，你也会得到变量的本地名称…

无论如何，这是反射手册，以防你需要什么。

我认为你想知道变量名和它的值。您可以使用关联数组来实现这一点。

为数组键使用变量名:

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

当你想获取变量名时，使用array_keys($vars)，它将返回一个数组，这些变量名是你的$vars数组中使用的键。