How to set this into a variable??

[ppowell]

$successMsgArray = array('image' => array('add_album' => 'Album: "$album" has been created',
									       'edit_album' => 'Information for album "$album" has been changed'));

I am having to return the following in a class method:

return $successMsgArray[$section][$action];

Where the contents of $successMsgArray[$section][$action] will have the "placeholders" replaced by their variable values, so if you want to return $successMsgArray['image']['add_album'] you should see:

Album "Phil" has been created

Where $album = 'Phil'

instead of

Album "$album" has been created

How on earth do I do this? I have tried every combination of printf, sprintf, echo, and eval that there could be done, to no avail. I'm completely confused as to how to return this 2-dim array value into something readable.

Here is the class method I have so far that fails miserably:

class MethodGeneratorForActionPerformer {

function &getSuccessMsg() {			// STATIC STRING METHOD
	global $section, $action, ${$section . 'LocationPath'}, $successMsgArray;
	if (is_array($_POST) && @sizeof($_POST) > 0) foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) if (!isset(${$key})) ${$key} = $val;
	$this->fileName = ($_POST['image_name']) ? $_POST['image_name'] : $this->fileName;
	echo eval('$msg = ' . $successMsgArray[$section][$action]);
	return $msg;
}

}

Thanx
Phil

[Sgarissta]

in the key for each 'action' put it in double quotes instead of single. PHP will not parse variables inside of single quotes, it will treat them as the literal string $album.

[ppowell]

 $successMsgArray = array('image' => array('add_album' => "Album: \"$album\" has been created",
									       'edit_album' => "Information for album \"$album\" has been changed",
									       'delete_album' => "Album: \"$album\", along with any metadata, has been deleted",
									       'upload' => "Successful uploading of \"$locationPath/$fileName\"",
									       'download_image_email' => "We have successfully emailed \"$locationPath/$image_name\" to \"$download_sender_email\"",
									       'download_image_url' => "The URL for \"$image_name\" has been sent to \"$download_sender_email\"",
									       'download_all' => 'All ' . ucfirst($section) . "s in \"$locationPath\" have been sent as ZIP to \"$download_sender_email\"",
									       'download_select' => 'Select ' . 'ucfirst($section)' . "s in \"$locationPath\" sent as ZIP to \"$download_sender_email\"",
									       'resize' => "Successful resizing of \"$locationPath/$fileName\"",
									       'edit' => "Information for $section: \"$fileName\" has been changed",
									       'remove' => "All information for $section: \"$fileName\" has been deleted - $section remains",
									       'delete_image' => "All information for $section: \"$fileName\" has been deleted - $section also deleted",
									       'delete_all_images' => "All ${section}s in \"$locationPath\" have been deleted along with any metadata",
									       'delete_select' => "Select ${section}s in \"$locationPath\" have been deleted along with any metadata",
									       'move_images' => "All ${section}s have been moved to \"$album\"",
									       'move_nonimages' => "This was a video at \"$locationPath\" that has been moved to a video location"),
						 'video' => array(),
						 'person' => array(),
					 	 'keyword' => array(),
						 'event' => array(),
						 'placement' => array()
						);

Ok I did that. Here is the class and method:

class MethodGeneratorForActionPerformer [

// MORE STUFF

function &getSuccessMsg() {			// STATIC STRING METHOD
	global $section, $action, ${$section . 'LocationPath'}, $successMsgArray;
	if (is_array($_POST) && @sizeof($_POST) > 0) foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) if (!isset(${$key})) ${$key} = $val;
	$locationPath = ($album) ? "${$section . 'LocationPath'}/$album" : ${$section . 'LocationPath'};
	$this->fileName = ($image_name) ? $image_name : $this->fileName;
	$fileName = $this->fileName;	// FOR REASSIGNMENT INTO GLOBALIZED 2-DIM ARRAY FROM PROCEDURAL GLOBAL LIBRARY project_globals.inc.php
	return $successMsgArray[$section][$action];
}
}

Now, if $successMsgArray[$section][$action] is called where $section = 'image' and $action = 'edit', THIS is what you see:

Information for image: "" has been changed

That is what I feared. Setting to double quotes is useless in this case because while $section is available, $fileName is not.

Phil