Some time ago, I was looking for a multiline parse_ini_file function to use in one of my scripts.

I found nothing on the web apart from other people looking for the same thing. So I decided to do it myself...
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On rare occasions, you may need to retrieve a variable name as a string.

This handy little function retreives the name of the variable:

 
<?php
      $my_var = 1;
      echo var_name ($my_var);
?>
 

will give 'my_var'.

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