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

why we have to use globals to get variable name... we can use simply like below.

    $variableName = "ajaxmint";

    echo getVarName('$variableName');

    function getVarName($name) {
        return str_replace('$','',$name);
    }