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[Senseh]

Just a quick question.

I want to access a variable called $ride1 thats been submitted by a form, but the 1 is a counter because there is also $ride2 and $ride3.

So how do i do $ride$num ?

TA!

[rehfeld]

no sure what you mean by "do"

but if your talking about how to access an unknown number of variables from a form

<?php

print_r($_POST['ride']);

?>

<input name="ride[]">
<input name="ride[]">
<input name="ride[]">
<input name="ride[]">

by putting [] after the name of the filed in the html, php will load the data into an array. now you can do a foreach or however you want to loop through the array.

[laserlight]

You would use variable variables, e.g. ${"ride" . $num}, but yeah, using an array usually is better.

[kpzani]

you can also use variable variable names
like
$test = "hello world";
$printvar = "test";

echo($$printvar);

that should print hello world.
i get this a lot by mistake. damn coffee sticking the $ key down!!!