u can "dynamical" chosse a variable name with a variable using a "douple" $ charachter eg.
$a = "this is a": $b = "a"; echo $$b; outputs "this is a" this is an all open feature to u have fun ralph "Govinda" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > HI all > > One thing I have been working around but now would love to just do it > finally (and save workaround/longer code hassle) is when: > > I need to be able to create a variable (name it, and assign it a > value) whose name is built up from a fixed string concatenated with > another string which comes from the value of another (already set) > variable. > > Ie: > > I want to do this: > (I am just assuming it won't work; I haven't even tried it yet) > > $var1='apple'; > $Fruit_$var1="organic"; > echo "$Fruit_apple"; // I want this to return "organic" > > Or how are you guys dynamically naming PHP vars on the fly? > > ------------ > John Butler (Govinda) > [email protected] > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
