echo within an if statement ?

[Anon]

Is there a way to dynamically create a variable name within the if condition ()s
In the example below, I want the '$variable' in the if statement to be replaced by $person1 the first iteration and $person2 the second iteration.

$person1 = "";
$person2 = "Joe";

for ($i = 1; $i <= 2; $i++) {

if ( $variable != "") {

    print "Hello $i!";

}

}

So the end result would be that it would not execute the if commands the first time because $person1 == "", but on the second time it would execute the if commands because $person2 != "". Any ideas??

Thanks

[Anon]

Instead of creating variable, store your $person1,$person2 in an array. Assign the first value in the $variable(in your example) and then compare. Complete the iteration with all the values in the array until end of array.
Should work

Sridhar

[Anon]

jeez.. i should have realized that. i had an array created already, and was using it in another snippet of the code to do the same exact thing! wow, long day i guess haha

thanks though!