Variable inside a variable? Help!

Avimander

I already have one way of doing it, but its long and tedious and I need lots of variables like it. This is the way I do it:

// $zero is extracted from the database earlier in the script, that works fine

$zerob = "$";
$zerob .= $zero;
eval ("\$zerob = \"$zerob\";");
$zero2 = $zerob;

I want one of those, but shorter, and so it would be $[$zero]stat, so if $zero was "foo", then it would be $foostat. And I could set/view that variable.

Avimander

With ALL the people BROWSING these FORUMS, cant ANYONE answer my QUESTION?!

It took half a day yesterday to get ONE response in my other topic. Do people that browse the forums just leave their computers on and PRETEND they're browsing the forums? Or do people just not LIKE my topics?

axo

it's rather that it's not quite clear what you want and that what you want is sort of a dirty way of programming. 😉
just try arrays, so you don't need such variable messing. 😉

anyway, the solution you ask would be

$foostat = "hello world";
$zero = "foo";
echo  ${$zero."stat"};

greets
axo 🙂

WinterDragon

are you talking about.. using the value of one variable as the name of one variable?

$firstVariable = 'secondVariable';
$$firstVariable = 'test';

echo $secondVariable;

Would print out "test"

Maybe thats what you mean... you sure are impatient and do not explain yourself...

mcgruff

The manual is always worth a read.

http://uk2.php.net/variables.variable

There's a downloadable version with user comments which is worth getting.

procoder

Originally posted by Avimander
With ALL the people BROWSING these FORUMS, cant ANYONE answer my QUESTION?!

It took half a day yesterday to get ONE response in my other topic. Do people that browse the forums just leave their computers on and PRETEND they're browsing the forums? Or do people just not LIKE my topics?

We dont like your topics 🙂

Heh, the code you provided was a bit unclear and kinda hard to understand, thats why you got a slow response. And we dont have to reply to you, be nice 🙂 this is a free service