Ok, but what does the $$name signify?  Looking on php.net I couldn't find
anything regarding it.  Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

> Check the manual for sure, but assuming:
>
> $cookie = array("foo" => "bar", "red" => "blue")
>
> once this is done you'll have the following variable defined:
>
> $foo = "bar";
> $red = "blue";
>
> I think that's how it works anyway.
>
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to piece apart someone's code to see exactly what it is they're
> > trying to do - This code was written for PHP 3.x, so it's not quite as
> > nice as 4 (with $_POST, $_GET, $_SESSION, etc).  There's this one part in
> > particular that I have no idea what's trying to be done:
> >
> > if (isset ($cookie)) {
> >    while (list ($name, $value) = each ($cookie)) {
> >       $$name = $value;
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > I'm assuming the $cookie array has cookie info stored in it, and it's
> > trying to pull the data out of the array.  The 2 parts of this I don't
> > really understand are lines 2 and 3, 3 in particular.  I'm guessing it's
> > assigning $name the index, $value the element - What's really stumping me
> > here though is the $$name = $value.  What is a variable with $$ in front
> > of it signify, and what is this trying to do?  Any thoughts on this one?
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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