what is the right way...

[toshog]

... to do this so i can get the value in the $POST:

$id=111;
$value=eval("\$_POST['his_mom_$id']");
print $value;

thanks...

[halojoy]

and where did $_POST[ "his_mom" ] come from
usually it comes from a HTML FORM of method = POST

<FORM action="evaluate.php" method="POST">
HIS MOM: <input type="text" name="his_mom"><BR>
ID NUM: <input type="text" name="id"><BR>
<BR>
<input type="submit" name="submit">
</FORM>

will goto evaluate.php
after input "submit" button is clicked

[toshog]

the problem is that you don't know his mom... i.e.:
in the form there are a lot of moms. like

<input name="his_mom_111">
<input name="his_mom_112">
<input name="his_mom_113">
etc

on the other side i want only mom 111...

[toshog]

got it... it's like:

$id=111;
$value=$_POST['his_mom_'.$id];
print $value;

turns out i don't need eval... to get his mom...

[thorpe]

why not just...

$value=$_POST['his_mom_111'];
print $value;

[toshog]

why not just...

because i don't know which mom exactly has been passed over... depends on a lot of things. and i have to be able to figure out which mom to catch on the other side.... :evilgrin:

[bbreslauer]

Couldn't you do the following?

$value=$_POST['his_mom_'. $id];
print $value;