Joining two strings into a variable name?

bunner_bob

I've got a for() loop that I want to cycle through a set of variables that are a combination of text and numbers.

What I want is it to do:
echo $text100
echo $text101
echo $text102
echo $text103
etc.

and feed it something like:
for ($i=0; $i<=6; $i++) {
$day = "$text10" . $i;
echo $day;
}

but what I get is a series of numbers, 0 thru 6, instead of the values of $text100 thru $text106 (which are defined elsewhere).

I'm sure this a simple bit of syntax that I just don't know - yet...😉

ScubaKing22

Try changing this:

for ($i=0; $i<=6; $i++) { 
$day = "$text10" . $i; 
echo $day; 
}

to this:

for ($i=0; $i<=6; $i++) { 
$day = "text10" . $i; 
echo $day; 
}

bunner_bob

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I don't want to display the string "text100", "text101", etc. I want to display the value of the variable $text100, $text101, etc.

So essentially what I need to do is glue together a bunch of bits ("$text10" and the numbers 0 thru 6, successively), then retrieve the value that glued-together variable name represents.

I'm using this to set up a multilingual site - this particular bit of code generates a list of days of the week. Code elsewhere in the page tells this code whether to pull $text100, $text101, etc. from the English language set of text variables or the Spanish language set.

So - one page, with as many languages as I like.

While it is easy enough to just manually populate a list of days, things get more difficult when I'm trying to determine what day of the week any given date is. I'll end up using a date() function to get the single digit representing the day of the week (0 thru 6), and then pull the language-appropriate word out of the text variables ($text100, $text101, etc.) to print it in text - "This group meets Thursday, July 23rd" - or the equivalent in Spanish.

tekky

for ($i=0; $i<=6; $i++) {
 $day = ${$text10 . $i};
 echo $day;
}

I believe thats the way to do it.... if not....

for ($i=0; $i<=6; $i++) {
 $day = eval(${$text10 . $i});
 echo $day;
}

bunner_bob

Ahh sweet - that's the ticky.

Except in my case I do:

$day = ${text10 . $i};

Because I'm not concatenating the value of $text10 and value of $i, but the string "text10" and the value of $i.

Anyway - works - thanks!

tekky

ahh my bad 😉 been a long day been up sinec 4:30am and its almost 4p now