[PHP] assigning a part of the name of a variable with another variable before php replaces it with the value

Specifically, If I have 3 HTTP_POST_VARS: HTTP_POST_VARS[client] = test1 HTTP_POST_VARS[directory]= test2 HTTP_POST_VARS[password] = and I don't know the names of the vars ahead of time, how would I run a check to see if they exist and then get the specific POST_VARS's value. This is what

Re: [PHP] assigning a part of the name of a variable with another variable before php replaces it with the value

To answer your question: $postfld = $HTTP_POST_VARS[$fname[$i]]; should work. BTW, I just use something like: if ($client) { // or in your case: if (${$fname[$i]}) // code to be evaluated if $client exists and is not 0, not null/void/nil, and is not an empty string } J Matthew DeChant