dynamic variable names

[Anon]

I have variables being passed to me via a Post operation.

They have names like: $data_XX
Where XX are contents of an array of known size.

ie:

$array=(12, 43, 23, 22);
$data_12 = "some content"
$data_43= "some other content"

How can i write code to access these data_XX elements if the XX parts are known only at runtime?

I hope this makes sense.

Thank you for any help
Scott

[nevermore2181]

http://www.php.net/manual/ro/language.variables.variable.php

That should contain everything you'll need.

[nevermore2181]

Also, you can submit entire arrays with forms, and PHP will interpret it.

IE:

<input type="text" name="var[0]" value="data">
<input type="text" name="var[1]" value="data2">

will be treated like the following upon submission:

$var = array("data", "data2");

I've even used it for two dimensional arrays, and associative arrays (name="var[subvar][0]").

This can come in handy.