Create an array with string that does not match a variable, and an array of variable names in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to create an array with string that does not match a variable, and an array of variable names.

Example

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<?php
    $firstname = "XML";
    $lastname = "HTML";
    $age = "41";

    $name = array("firstname", "lastname");
    $result = compact($name, "location", "age");

    print_r($result);
?>

The code above generates the following result.