[Resolved] Variable names in Functions?

[BuzFortuna]

Can I do this? Like uhh... off the top of my head:

function show$WordIn$Name() {  

    $query = "SELECT $Word FROM $Name";
$result = mysql_query($query);  

if($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {  

        $newWord = $row["$word"];
        echo " $newWord";
    }
}

What I want to do is so you can create functions on the fly... so if I wanted to show the entry for the row "Title" in the table name "Movies", I could just do this whenver I wanted:

showTitleInMovies();

Then, it would query for "Title" from the table "Movies" and echo whatever "Title" was... I don't think it's too hard to catch what I'm saying but would this work?

[BuzFortuna]

I just remembered, it would be something like this (I know next to nothing about functions)

function showWord($word, $name) {  

    $query = "SELECT $word FROM $name";
$result = mysql_query($query);  

if($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {  

        $newWord = $row["$word"];
        echo "$newWord";
    }
}

Then just use:

showWord("Title", "Movies");

Right?

[LordShryku]

In that case you should be passing those variables as arguments to the function. If you're going to be having variable number of arguments, there's always [man]func_get_args[/man]. But if you're deadset on naming functions ad hoc, you can try using [man]create_function[/man].

[BuzFortuna]

My second post code worked, I'm happy with myself. 🙂