variable variable name

[Anon]

i have a script which has a variable $i which i want to append to the name $name to give a variable name,.
for example if $i = 1, $name$i = $name1.
The reason is that i have variables in a form which are the same but with a row number on the end eg name1, name2 etc.
i also tried using $name{$i} but that didn't seem to work either

[khaine]

What you need to do is create a seperate variable and put the names into that. for example.

<?

$name1="hello";
$name2="world";

for ( $temp=1; $temp<3; $temp++ )
{
$thisvar="name".$temp;
echo ${$thisvar}." ";
}

?>

will display hello world on screen.

Mark.

[Anon]

example:

for($i=0;$i<20;$i++){
$names=$name.$i;
$named=$$names;

echo $named; #actually prints the value of a variable: $name1, $name2, ect.

#you could put this in an array like this:
$array[]=$$names;

and when the loop exits, $array[0] would be the same as $name1

}

Justin
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