How check memory location of variable in php?

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How check memory location of variable in php?

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Answer 1

If you need to know if $varA is a reference to $varB, then you're out of luck: the PHP innards does not present this information to the developer.

However, you can extract some information about references by parsing the output from var_dump or debug_zval_dump(). Read the relevant manual sections, and see this question for some details.

And have a ready of this (PDF) article by Derick Rethans on references in PHP.

Watch out for the refcount when using debug_zval_dump() because the function always creates an additional reference within itself, incrementing the value by 1