[Resolved] Help with this loop

[Mikemcs]

I have 5 variable that are passed to this page and I want to loop to each var and check its value and if it is not = to none write it to the table. My problem is all I am doing with this code is setting $thisitem to item1,item2,item3,item4 and item5 not the actual values of $item1, $item2,..... I hope this makes sense

for ($i=1; $i<=5; $i++)
{
  $thisitem = "item$i";
  echo $$thisitem.'<br>';
  if ($$thisitem <> "none")
  {
    $prep = ibase_prepare("INSERT INTO ICCATALOGMATES(FCAPTION, FMATECAT, FMATENAME)
                          VALUES (?,?,?)" );
    $query = ibase_execute($prep,$$thisitem,$cat,$$thisitem);
  }

[OhLordy]

On a few of your lines you are preceding your variable by an extra $.
Hope this Helps
Rob

[Mikemcs]

I know about the xtra $'s I looked at a book and it did this also so I tried it that way but that doesnt solve the problem. I need the value of item1 not the text item1

[Mikemcs]

This worked

$item = "item";
for ($i=1; $i<=5; $i++)
{
  $thisitem = $item . $i;
  echo $$thisitem.'<br>';
  if ($$thisitem <> "none")
  {
    $prep = ibase_prepare("INSERT INTO ICCATALOGMATES(FNAME, FMATECAT, FMATENAME)
                          VALUES (?,?,?)" );
    $query = ibase_execute($prep,$Connector,$cat,$$thisitem);
  }
}