simulate $values

[chrislive]

hi everyone,

not sure how to go about this really so i thought i would ask for some help. Basically i have a includes file currently with a series of values that are used throughout my website. but for ease of management i want to place these into my mysql db.

so i want the following in mysql table

[code]

| name | value |

| gal | yes |

| jump | high |

[/code]

then i want to have a loop that will go through each of the rows in the table and extract the $name = value for example through my site i can call $gal and get the value yes.

am i making sence??? 😐

i tried something like this:

<?php

$name = "jump";
$value = "higher";


define('$'."$name", "$value");

echo $jump;

?>

but it didnt work.

Thanks
Chris

[drew010]

define creates symbolic constants (variables named like MYNAME).
if you want to create the variables like that you will want to try.

$name = "jump";
$value = "higher";

$$name = $value;

echo $jump;

[chrislive]

ahah that worked fine. funny how sometimes you never try the easiest approach huh 😛

Thanks for your help.