[PHP] variable hell

2005-01-04 Thread mario 
Hi all

I have few variables in this format:

$isproductssorttext = 150;
$isofferssorttext = 250;
$isnewproductssorttext = 350;

$isproductscount = 50;
$isofferscount = 30;
$isnewproductscount = 20;
etc


What I want to do is have a variable
e.g. $x = products;

and create from that, the variable $is'products'sorttext
(--$isproductssorttext) and use its value

so if $x was offers on echo I would have (250) -- $isofferssorttext
if $x was newproducts on echo I would have (350) -- 
$isnewproductssorttext

Thanks in advance

Mario

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RE: [PHP] variable hell

2005-01-04 Thread Mike Johnson 
From: mario [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

 Hi all
 
 I have few variables in this format:
 
 $isproductssorttext = 150;
 $isofferssorttext = 250;
 $isnewproductssorttext = 350;
 
 $isproductscount = 50;
 $isofferscount = 30;
 $isnewproductscount = 20;
 etc
 
 
 What I want to do is have a variable
 e.g. $x = products;
 
 and create from that, the variable $is'products'sorttext
 (--$isproductssorttext) and use its value
 
 so if $x was offers on echo I would have (250) -- 
 $isofferssorttext
 if $x was newproducts on echo I would have (350) -- 
 $isnewproductssorttext

I'd imagine, at this point, you'd need to move into the realm of
associative arrays.

$x = 'products';

$issorttext[$x] = 150;
$isnewsorttext[$x] = 350;
$iscount[$x] = 50;
$isnewcount[$x] = 20;

After this, you'd end up with four arrays of one key each ('products'),
referenced as such:

echo $issorttext['products']; // echoes 150

Then do the same for the key 'offers' and you'd have the same four
arrays, but now each with two keys.

Hope this wasn't too confusing an explanation.   :)


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Re: [PHP] variable hell

2005-01-04 Thread Jyry Kuukkanen 
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, mario wrote:

 Hi all
 
 I have few variables in this format:
 
 $isproductssorttext = 150;
 $isofferssorttext = 250;
 $isnewproductssorttext = 350;
 
 $isproductscount = 50;
 $isofferscount = 30;
 $isnewproductscount = 20;
 etc
 
 
 What I want to do is have a variable
 e.g. $x = products;
 
 and create from that, the variable $is'products'sorttext
 (--$isproductssorttext) and use its value
 
 so if $x was offers on echo I would have (250) -- $isofferssorttext
 if $x was newproducts on echo I would have (350) -- 
 $isnewproductssorttext



Hello


I believe what you are after is ${'is'.$x.'sorttext'}

but I would rather use the nfollowing approach as it is much more readable 
and easier to debug:

$issorttext = array('offers' = 250, 'newproducts' = 250, ...)

and then use it:

echo $issorttext['offers'];




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Re: [PHP] variable hell

2005-01-04 Thread John Nichel 
mario wrote:
Hi all
I have few variables in this format:
$isproductssorttext = 150;
$isofferssorttext = 250;
$isnewproductssorttext = 350;
$isproductscount = 50;
$isofferscount = 30;
$isnewproductscount = 20;
etc
What I want to do is have a variable
e.g. $x = products;
and create from that, the variable $is'products'sorttext
(--$isproductssorttext) and use its value
so if $x was offers on echo I would have (250) -- $isofferssorttext
if $x was newproducts on echo I would have (350) -- 
$isnewproductssorttext

Thanks in advance
Mario
You probably want to look into arrays...
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php
http://us4.php.net/array
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Re: [PHP] variable hell

2005-01-04 Thread Robby Russell 
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:54 +0200, mario wrote:
 Hi all
 
 I have few variables in this format:
 
 $isproductssorttext = 150;
 $isofferssorttext = 250;
 $isnewproductssorttext = 350;
 
 $isproductscount = 50;
 $isofferscount = 30;
 $isnewproductscount = 20;
 etc
 
 
 What I want to do is have a variable
 e.g. $x = products;
 
 and create from that, the variable $is'products'sorttext
 (--$isproductssorttext) and use its value
 
 so if $x was offers on echo I would have (250) -- $isofferssorttext
 if $x was newproducts on echo I would have (350) -- 
 $isnewproductssorttext
 
 Thanks in advance
 
 Mario
 

This seems like an odd approach to doing this.. but here goes:


$isproducttext = 120;

$x = product;

$y = is . $x . text;

print $$y;



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