converting varibale inside a 'string'

[travik]

I have:

ds_kenpart('$ar_kenparts[$i][kpid]');

and inside the function:

function ds_kenpart($startappend_string)
{
echo "The value is: $startappend_string";
}

The output is:
$ar_kenparts[$i][kpid]
but i want the output to be:
The value inside the array element:
$ar_kenparts[$i][kpid]

Any help will be very much appreciated. I have been struggling with this for last 5 days,

Regards,

Vikas

[[deleted]]

It's really quite simple: why are you quoting the variable in the function argument?
try:
ds_kenpart($ar_kenparts[$i][kpid]);

Single quotes tell PHP to read the enclosed data as it is, and not read the variables that it represents.

[travik]

$ar_kenparts[$i][kpid] => holds the value 1

if i call the array like:
ds_kenpart($ar_kenparts[$i][kpid]);

The function ds_kenpart is called with the value 1.

But inside the ds_kenpart function I neeed the string.
$ar_kenparts[$i][kpid])

which I should then be able to put in a for loop like
for (i=0; i<10;i++)
{
$ar_kenparts[$i][kpid]);
}

[[deleted]]

In that case you should pass only the array itself ($ar_kenparts) and the field you need ('kpid').

ds_kenpart($ar_kenparts,'kpid');

then in the function:

function ds_kenpart($array,$part)
{
for (i=0; i<10;i++)
{
$array[$i][$part]);
};
};