You can do:
${"this->$passed_in_array_name"}
not sure right now of the correct syntaxing, I never do that - normally
I'd pass the element key.
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John Kenyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... :
> Thank you for replying, but I don't think I've made my problem clear
> enough. Let me give it another shot.
>
> What I want is a function that takes the name of an array as a parameter
> so that it can be popped into any class that has arrays in it and work
> without modification. The problem I am having is in converting the
> passed in array name to the form which the class would recognize as its
> own member variable, i.e. $this->passed_in_array_name. In other words,
> it comes in as a string, just the name of the array, I append $this-> to
> it, but it still isn't getting interpreted the same as if I had written
> the call explicitely to $this->memberarray. Does this make any more sense?
>
> jck
>
> Marek Kilimajer wrote:
>
> > If I understand you, you need to have a basic class with the
> > one function and subclass it. Then you can reference the array
> > as $this->$passed_in_array_name
> >
> > John Kenyon wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to write a function I can plop in a bunch of different
> >> classes without having to modify it.
> >>
> >> Basically I have classes like:
> >>
> >>
> >> class Example
> >> {
> >> var $array1;
> >> var $array2;
> >> var $array3;
> >>
> >>
> >> etc.
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> and I want to have a function in that class that looks something like
> >> this:
> >>
> >> function do_something_to_array($passed_in_array_name)
> >> {
> >> //this is what I've done so far, but which isn't working
> >> $arr = '$this->' . $passed_in_array_name;
> >>
> >> // now I want $passed_in_array_name to be evaluated as an array
> >>
> >> eval ("\$arr = \"$arr\";");
> >>
> >> // however even if 'array1' is the passed in value $arr is not the
> >> // same as $this->array1
> >> ...
> >> }
> >>
> >> As a side note there is another aspect of this that confuses me -- if
> >> I do a print_r($arr) before the eval it returns the string
> >> '$this->array1', if I do it after it returns Array (which is what it
> >> seems it should do. However, if I then pass $arr to a function that
> >> requires an array as an argument, like array_push, for example, I get
> >> an error that says that function takes an array. Can anyone explain
> >> this to me? The only guess I have is that my eval function is turning it
> >> into a string which reads as Array instead of either a String object
> >> or the
> >> value of the string.
> >>
> >> More important though is the first problem of generically
> >> accesing a member variable based on the passed in name of the
> >> variable. In other words I want to be able to choose which array I
> >> operate on by passing in the name of that array.
> >>
> >>
> >> Any help on this problem is appreciated. I know there must be a way to
> >> do this. Please let me know if I haven't formulated the problem
> >> clearly enough.
> >>
> >> jck
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
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