variable name nightmare

[pneb]

I am trying to dynamically generate some menus, but having problems acessing my variables.

I have an array called $company_pages which contains the names of sub pages in the category of "company".

The name of the category (company) is held in the variable $page

I try to access my array on the page by setting a new variable :
$section= "$". $page . "_pages";
so that $section = $company_pages .
The problem is $section[0] =c
$section[0] =o
$section[0] =m etc. because $section is really the string "company pages" --How can I make is reference my array?
Thank you!
Patty

[tomhath]

Why are you trying to use variable variables in the first place? If you have an array called $company_pages, just use it. There are many ways to do this, the most obvious is with 'if' or 'switch' statements.

But a better way would be to put all of the categories into an array of arrays and index them from there.

$categories['companies'] = $company_pages;
...
echo $categories[$page][0];

[ir4z0r]

use ${}
an example:

<?PHP
  $hallo = "yeah";
  $page = "hallo";
  $name = ${$page};

  echo '>' . $name . '<';
  // prints >yeah<
?>

[pneb]

thank you very much for your help!
Patty