how to find a variable definition in PHP project

Question

Currently I am working on a large php project and using xampp server and brackets IDE. Can anyone please tell me how to find the specific line or file where the variable is first defined.

try [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2970806/find-where-a-variable-is-defined-in-php-and-or-smarty) or if you are trying to do it from code and know the physical site of origin you can do `$origin = __LINE__;` to get the line number. — CalebB, Jul 21 '15 at 15:11
thanks for the reply but variable defined in a separate file so i cant use find option — Pankaj Agrawal, Jul 21 '15 at 15:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 21 '15 at 15:14

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you can use 3rd party applications like Actual Search and Replace

answered Jul 21 '15 at 15:14

Ehab Eldeeb

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '15 at 18:03

You can find the variable definition across files in brackets..

Shift+ctrl+F on windows.

You can also manually navigate to the option via the menu bar

Find > Find in Files

It will give you instances of the search string across all files in the project.

how to find a variable definition in PHP project

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