variables in variables :S

Pikapooh

Hey all,ive made a dynamic form generator with validation and all its pritty cool, but ive encountered a bit of a nasty problem.

You see all the HTML objects names such as a textareas name are specified in variables such as $RowNam[x] = 'UserName'; which works cool. Problems start occuring as i try to pass variables from one step to another via hidden fields. Now my question is:

How do i call a hidden filed and have its value set to the value set inside the variables variable?!?! ah i know it sounds stupid but thats the onlyw ay to describe it :S

have a look at this
<input name="<?=$RowNam[$i]?>" type="hidden" value="$<?=$RowNam[$i]?>">

this producses something like this:

but i need $email to = whats actually in the variables $email !

please help me before my head explodes!!!!
thanks very much.

EricC

have you tried changing this:
<input name="<?=$RowNam[$i]?>" type="hidden" value="$<?=$RowNam[$i]?>">

to this

<input name="<? echo $RowNam[$i] ?>" type="hidden" value="<? echo $RowNam[$i]?>">

YappyDog

<? $name = $RowNam[$i]; ?>
<input name="<?= $name ?>" type="hidden" value="<?= $$name ?>">

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php

Pikapooh

but thats just the same as what i had before just without the $ on the second one.

it also just returns this:

you see in step one of a multi step form, email was the name of a text field and i need to keep the name of email for the name of the hidden field, and then the value of the field to be the information which is inside the variable 'email' which happens to be sotres in a variable called RowName[x]

Pikapooh

Thanks Yappy Dog, you replied at the same time i did !

that works a treat 🙂 cheers fer that!