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

I believe Alix and nickf are suggesting this:

function debug($variablename)
{
  echo ($variablename . ":
");
  global $$variablename; // enable scope
  var_dump($$variablename);
}

I have tested it and it seems to work just as well as Wagger's code (Thanks Wagger: I have tried so many times to write this and the global variable declaration was my stumbling block)