Re: [PHP] How to use string as variable name?
Hi Adam Voigt, On 18 Nov 2002 13:11:30 -0500, you wrote about Re: [PHP] How to use string as variable name? something that looked like this: $date = 2002-11-22; $myvar = a . str_replace(-,,$date); $$myvar = hi; echo $a20021122; GREAT ... works right off ..thx a billion ... Rene -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] How to use string as variable name?
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
Re: [PHP] How to use string as variable name?
$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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [PHP] How to use string as variable name?
Convert $day=2002-11-22 to just $day=d20021122 and $$day will be really $d20021122 -[ 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
