Using variable names in loops

[Anon]

Hi,
I am sending form elements from one page to another. The second page needs to loop through the form elements (variables) received, and determine if they should be added to a database or not.
How can I structure the syntax so that the condition test can reference the variable names correctly?
For example the variables are status1, status2, status3 etc. I need the condition test to be able to say 'if statusX == 1 then .....' sort of thing.
I guess I need something equivelent to 'eval' in other languages.
Thanks for any help. Graham

[[deleted]]

something like
if ($status2==1)
should work.

check out the manual about variables and conditions.

[kryptx]

if you want to use a string as the name of a variable, just add another $. check it out:

$i = 1;
while($i<10) {
if($('status'.$i) == 1)
// $status($i)==1
$i++;
}

[Anon]

Use an array instead.

Instead of <input type=whatever name=status1> use <input type=whatever name=status[1]>

Then you can loop thru the array.