carols - true, but to avoid confusion and problem sif your names get more
complex (i.e. i think $$some_name will go crazy, you should always do it
like this
$var_name = "game1";
${$var_name}
cheers guys
// -----Original Message-----
// From: Carlos Augusto Abarca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
// Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2001 3:19 AM
// To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
// Subject: [PHP-DB] Re: Newbie in Need of Assistance
//
//
// It�s very easy and to tell you the truth I descovered it by accident:
//
// Lets say you have a variable with the dynamic variable name
// (ej. $var_name =
// "game1";)
//
// if you want to create this variable ($game1) then you can write:
// $$var_name
// And that�s it.
//
// try it.
//
// "Jmack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje
// [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
// > Greetings. I have been playing around with PHP this week,
// programming a
// > football pool. I have hit a small snag that I would like
// some assistance
// > with, if anyone knows the answer -- it's probably very
// simple, but my
// Intro
// > to PHP book does not tell me how to do it.
// >
// > I have an HTML form in a PHP page, with several controls
// on it. I am
// > dynamically generating the names for these controls. Here is the
// example --
// > for each game, the user selects the winner in a <SELECT>
// control. It's
// set
// > up to not care how many games there are for each week,
// just dynamically
// > build the form/controls and name them "pick1", "pick2", etc.
// >
// > In my function that handles the form and uploads the
// user's picks to the
// > database (MySQL), I need to also dynamically generate the
// variable names
// > that refer to these controls. I have them all declared as global
// variables,
// > since I know there will never be more than 15 games in a
// given week. But,
// I
// > want to iterate through a loop for each game and update
// the database. As
// I
// > loop through for each game, and try to dynamically
// generate the vaiable
// > names for $pick1, $pick2, etc. I end up trying to update the DB by
// sending
// > in the string "$pick1" instead of the value from the form
// control for
// pick1.
// >
// > I have attached the PHP file in question. The code is not
// very clean,
// > especially the part where I am having problems, but
// hopefully, someone
// will
// > have some time to help me with this problem. Please
// respond to this
// > newsgroup or directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you.
// >
// > Joe Mack
// >
// >
// >
// >
//
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