Is there a way to get the name of a variable? PHP - Reflection

Question

I know this is not exactly reflection, but kind of. I want to make a debug function that gets a variable and prints a var_dump and the variable name.

Of course, when

Answer 1

This is late post but I think it is possible now using compact method

so the code would be

$a=1;
$b=2;
$c=3

var_dump(compact('a','b','c'));

the output would be

array (size=3)
'a' => int 1
'b' => int 2
'c' => int 3

where variable name a, b and c are the key

Hope this helps