Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > Thanks Ryan, > > but what I want is to be able to pass any variable to a procedure and > have the variable name and value printed by the procedure. > > Can this be done? > > I'm trying to extend my library of debugging functions/procedures by > having a procedure which can be used to "inspect" a variable whenever > I call it.
This is a bit kludgy, but should work: function showvar($varname) { if (!isset($GLOBALS[$varname])) { return; } echo "Now showing: $varname\n"; echo "Value: ".$GLOBALS[$varname]."\n"; } $s1 = "Hello World"; showvar('s1'); HTH -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php