Dynamic variable naming

[brooky]

Hello 🙂

Is it possible to make php use variables in the name of a new variable.

e.g.

$dynamic_variable= "_extention";
$set_variable = "variable";

To get

$variable_extansion = "...

How can we add the variable to the end of the set one to make a new variable!?!

See what I mean?

[laserlight]

Read the PHP manual on variable variables.

[Shrike]

It's easy to do that kind of thing with hash lists:

$myhash['set_variable'] = "variable";
$myhash['dynamic_variable'] = "_extension";

$myhash2[$myhash['set_variable'].$myhash['dynamic_variable']] = "...

would give

$myhash2['variable_extension'] = "...

Not really sure if variable values can be used to set variable names, not sure why you'd want to either 🙂

[Shrike]

Ok stand corrected 🙂