How to get the source code of a method/function call?

[seaside]

Currently, I use this call

traceVariable( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], '$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]' );

to pass a variable by reference to 'traceVariable' and by value a
description string.

Since the description string is very likely to be identical to the
source code (string) of the first parameter, I'd like to write this:

traceVariable( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] );

Any ideas, how to get the literal expression (source) of a parameter,
which got passed to a method/function?

[Andy Hassall]

On 16 Dec 2006 15:23:19 -0800, "seaside" <se********@mac .comwrote:

>Currently, I use this call

traceVariable( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], '$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]' );

to pass a variable by reference to 'traceVariable' and by value a
description string.

Since the description string is very likely to be identical to the
source code (string) of the first parameter, I'd like to write this:

traceVariable( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] );

Any ideas, how to get the literal expression (source) of a parameter,
which got passed to a method/function?

See the thread "Easy question, return variable name" from just 2 days ago.

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[seaside]

Andy Hassall schrieb:

On 16 Dec 2006 15:23:19 -0800, "seaside" <se********@mac .comwrote:

Since the description string is very likely to be identical to the
source code (string) of the first parameter, I'd like to write this:

traceVariable( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] );

Any ideas, how to get the literal expression (source) of a parameter,
which got passed to a method/function?

See the thread "Easy question, return variable name" from just 2 days ago.

Ok, no standard method available. Then, I'll use backtrace to construct
'something'.

[Dikkie Dik]

You can use the eval function to go the other way around (not tested):

function traceVariable($ name)
{echo $name . ' = ' . var_export(eval ('return ' . $name), TRUE);}

You'd call it with traceVariable(' $_SERVER[\'PHP_SELF\']');
seaside wrote:

Andy Hassall schrieb:

>On 16 Dec 2006 15:23:19 -0800, "seaside" <se********@mac .comwrote:

>>Since the description string is very likely to be identical to the
source code (string) of the first parameter, I'd like to write this:

traceVariable( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] );

Any ideas, how to get the literal expression (source) of a parameter,
which got passed to a method/function?

See the thread "Easy question, return variable name" from just 2 days ago.

Ok, no standard method available. Then, I'll use backtrace to construct
'something'.

[seaside]

Dikkie Dik schrieb:

You can use the eval function to go the other way around (not tested):

function traceVariable($ name)
{echo $name . ' = ' . var_export(eval ('return ' . $name), TRUE);}

You'd call it with traceVariable(' $_SERVER[\'PHP_SELF\']');

Hey, nice idea!

If PHP had a preprocessor, I could even prepare a #define() macro,
which
passes the passed literla-string and its expression along.
Unfortunately, I don't
know of any.