dynamic variables?

[johnnyv]

ok i need to create dynamic variable names like so:

$names = array("cat","dog","mouse");

foreach($names as $name_values)
{
$$name_values = "I'm the variable for $name_values";
}

echo $cat;

would give "I'm the variable for cat"

thats ok but i want to be able to access the created variables later on by looking at the $names array.

how do i make a script that will know that there is a variable called $cat because there is a "cat" string in the array

I can't go echo $cat; because i don't know what will be in the array, i can't go echo $$name_values; because that would give me the value for $mouse as "mouse" was the last string in the foreach().

Any ideas?

[johnnyv]

Found the answer shortly after posting the question:rolleyes:

i did not know about the {} method

here is a full example

$names = array("cat","dog","mouse");

foreach($names as $name_values)
{
$$name_values = "this is the variable $name_values";
}

// to access the created variables later on
foreach($names as $name_values)
{
echo ${$name_values}."<br>";
}

${$name_values}
is the same as $cat
when $name_values ="cat"

Yay!