[RESOLVED] possible or not

I want to keep my code clean and tidy, but im running into a problem.

Lets say i have this very simple code:


$stringx = $stringy . "there";

$stringy = "hello";

echo $stringx;

Off course the result will be: 'there'

But is there a way that i can have it say 'hellothere'?
in other words, that $stringx is updated before its echoed?

without swapping the 2 lines? The problem is that $stringx is very long, and created much earlier, but has to have a variable in it.

a bit hard to explain i think 🙂

maybe another example helps.


$string = "this is the " . $i . " time you see this line";

While (true) {
    $i++;
   echo $string;
}

thnx!!

Without condoning your approach 🙂, I'd say maybe like this:

$string = array('this is the ', ' time you see this line'); 
$i = 0;
while (++$i < 100) { 
    echo $string[0] . $i . $string[1]; 
}

Or:

$string = 'this is the %blank% time you see this line'; 
$i = 0;
while (++$i < 100) { 
    echo str_replace('%blank%', $i, $string); 
}

function stringx()
{
  global $stringy;
  return($stringy.'there');
}
$stringy = "hello";
echo stringx();

Thanks Nog Dog and Installer!

indeed a function is really helpfull, also the replace string is very clever tought 😃
this really helps keeping my code simple

otherwise i had to put loads of code inside a loop, and you have to avoid that 🙂

thnx!