Loops

[Anon]

Is there a way to capture the results from a loop statement into a variable to be used at a later time?

Sample:

<?
for ($i = 1; $i <= 7; print "gift_$i.", $i++) ;
print "gift_0";
?>

Results: gift_1.gift_2.gift_3.gift_4.gift_5.gift_6.gift_7.gift_0

I'd like to capture this string to test into a variable to be used at a later time.

Any thoughts?

[junebug]

well, you can save the results into an array:

for($i = 1; $i <= 7; $i++){
$var[] = "gift_$i";
}

or you could save it in a string:

for($i = 1; $i <= 7; $i++){
$var .= "gift_$i.";
}

i would think that saving it as an array would be easier to deal with, and if you needed to put the results into a string you could use impolde().

[drkatz]

When you go through a loop, you can do as much in that loop as you need to:

for( $i=1; $i<=7; $++ )
{
/ print something /
print "gift_$i\n";

/* store something */
$useLater[] =  "gift_$i";

/* do something else: */
simmah("!");

}

[cordex]

I would advise that you go with chris's array idea because it give you far more options.

However, (if I understand you correctly) you should try:
<?
for ($i = 1; $i <= 7; print "gift$i.", $i++) ;
$variable .= "gift$i";
print "gift_0";
?>

or are you trying to turn all the gift_0, gift_1 etc strings into variables? In which case,

${"gift_" . $i} = "value"; //would do nicely

[Anon]

I imploded the array and created a variable called $gifts.

for($i = 1; $i <= 7; $i++)
{
$gifts[] = "\$gift_$i";
}
$maxgifts = implode(".",$gifts);
print ("<INPUT TYPE=\"hidden\" name=\"gifts\" Value=\"$maxgifts\">\n");

The variable called $gifts did not worked , but if I cut and paste the results of $gifts into the script as per example the if logic works!?

<?php_track_vars?>
<?
if ($pledge_amount == "" or
($pledge_amount >= "80" && $Send_Gift == "1" && $gift_1.$gift_2.$gift_3.$gift_4.$gift_5.$gift_6.$gift_7 == "") or
($pledge_amount >= "80" && $Send_Gift == "3" && $cGiftAddress1 == "")
)
{
Any further thoughts?