$date = "2002-11-22"; $myvar = "a" . str_replace("-","",$date); $$myvar = "hi";
echo "$a20021122"; Enjoy. On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 13:05, -<[ Rene Brehmer ]>- wrote: > Hi gang > > I'm suffering under the lack of an SQL, which would've made this loads > easier, so instead I'm forced at using a bunch of arrays to keep track of > the info instead... > > But here's the prob: I'm working on a list of premieredates for movies. > Here's the HTML version I made to figure out how to make it into PHP: > http://metalbunny.net/dk/film/ > (it's in Danish, don't let that confuse you). > > The current one is static HTML, but I want it to be dynamic PHP, as it, > naturally, will make it easier to add to/update the list. > > So, without the benefit of a database, I'm using arrays, as this: > > // array with premiere dates > $premieredag = > >array("2002-11-22","2002-11-29","2002-12-06","2002-12-18","2002-12-25","2003-01-03","2003-01-17","2003-01-24"); > > // each date has its own array, with partial filenames for each movie > $d20021122 = array("001"); > $d20021129 = array("002","003","004"); > $d20021206 = array("005","006","007"); > > // ... and so on ... > > I need the string from $premieredag to build the date heading. But want I > want to do, is to be able to convert the string contents into the variable > name used for each date's array ... > > so that I pull $premieredag[0] and convert the string from "2002-11-22" > into $d20021122, which is easy enough, as a string, but how can I make PHP > understand that I want to pull data from the array that is named that??? > Current experimental design gives nothing but errors ... so it's useless > ... > How do you convert a string value into a variable name??? > > Lost here ... I've only ever done something like this once in JS a looong > time ago, and can't even remember how... > > TIA > > Rene > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Adam Voigt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Cryptocomm Group My GPG Key: http://64.238.252.49:8080/adam_at_cryptocomm.asc
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