variable variable methods

[Anon]

I am trying to state some variables.
I want to state a variable variable/ ie one part of the variable name is
constant and the other part is different.

The constant part of the variable name is $newsItem and the other part of
the variable name has to be the number of the loop ($ie)

Here is my code:

for ($i = 1; $i < $numItems; $i++) {
$iCurr = "$i.txt";
if (!$text=fopen("$iCurr", "r"))

echo ("file $iCurr does not exist".BR);

} elseif ($numItems) {
$newsItem = fread($text, 100);
echo (NL);
echo ("-- $newsItem -------- This was printed from $iCurr
(\$iCurr)".BR);
$newsItem.$i = "$newsItem"; ######### THIS IS THE PART WHERE I WANT TO
DO VAR VARS, BUT I KNOW THAT THIS SYNTAX IS WRONG ##########
} elseif ($numItems) {
// do nothing yet
}
// echo ("this is #$i var".BR); // Prints the number of $numItems
}

Whats happening here is I have loop that is controlled by $numItems this is
going to be 5. It loops until i = 5. It reads the info in from seperate text
files, '1.txt', '2.txt', '3.txt', '4.txt', '5.txt', etc.

I then want to set the variable $newsItem4 ($newsItem-4 is then determined
by the value of $i which increments each loop) to be $newsItem.

Can anyone help.

Thanks.

Scott.

[Anon]

Look like you need to start using an ARRAY, have a look at the manual.

[Anon]

i don't think that this is what you want to use variable variables for; thypically they are used to refer to variable which have already been declared

in this case you want to do something like:

$newsItem[$i] = fread($text, 100);

[Anon]

Hi,

I have a very same problem.
I can do it in .asp very easy, but now I have to use it in .php.
Did you find the solution???

Thanx
moorgy

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What's the problem?

[Anon]

thanx,

I've fixed it.
trick:
variables are
day_charge_2_XY [where X and Y are numbers]
I needed to pass these variable dynamicaly to function xxx().

solution:

xxx(${"day_charge_2_".$days.$zona});
[where $days and $zona are "indexes"].

I can't use array because these "indexes" are not incremental ("zig-zag" usage 🙂

moorgy