[RESOLVED] $p_{$k} is an array???

[epimeth]

I want to do something very simple....
all of my post variables should be in separate regular variables that start with '$p_'.

Usually I do something like this:

foreach ($_POST as $k=>$v) $$k = $v;

so I assumed this would work:

foreach ($_POST as $k=>$v) $p_$k = $v;

looking back, I shoulda known that would hand me an error... but not to be deterred I do this:

foreach ($_POST as $k=>$v) $p_{$k} = $v;

this also didn't work... but it didn't error... in my debugging I found that echoing $p_{$k} works juuuust fine. so I decide to sift through all my defined vars...

echo preg_replace('/ /', "&nbsp;", preg_replace('/\n/', "<br>", print_r(get_defined_vars(), true)));

aaaand lo! and behold! and all that jazz!

    [p_] => Array
        (
            [form_type] => delete
            [type] => q
            [id] => 1
            [c_id] => 1
        )

wtf????? how do I fix this???? I want p_form_type and p_type, and p_id!!! not an array!!!! an array defeats the whole purpose :-(

[bradgrafelman]

foreach($_POST as $k=>$v)
     ${'p_' . $k} = $v;

EDIT: Though, PHP already has a function to do this. Instead of the above code, just do this:

extract($_POST, EXTR_PREFIX_ALL, 'p_');

[epimeth]

cheers amigo!