Variable Variables Question

[vocoder]

<?
$weeknumber = strftime("%W-%u");

for ($i=0; $i < 42; $i++)
{

$varName = $weeknumber . "_test_" . $i;

echo "New Variable is" . $$varName;

}
?>

say i have the above code...obviously, that doesn't work. Am I going at this with the right approach? I basically need a variable to equal the weeknumber and day of week i have, plus a counted number that changes

[vocoder]

i should add that what i'm doing with it is the following

fwrite ($news_file, "<tr><td bgcolor = white colspan=\"2\"><form action = \"process_file.php\"><input type = checkbox  name =\" $i_checkbox_$unique_date_string\">:DELETE<br> ");

so what i have is a bunch of checkboxes created, that have a unique date string at the end of the name, and a number at the begining of the name...so checkbox 1's name would be

1_checkbox_3-36

checkbox 2 would be

2_checkbox_3-36

and so on....the number of checkboxes varries and thats why i need to do this.

however the above code $i_checkbox$unique_date_string will not print out the correct string..it will only print out checkbox_3-36, it leaves off the $i

[rinjani]

For what you are doing there is no need to use variable variables.
Just get rid of the second $ and the numbers will print out fine.

HTH