Variables with incremented value

[Toadums]

Hey...So I want to make variables that looks like foo1, foo2, foo3...except I want them to increment with a while loop so I tried

while($i<=3){
$foo.$i and $foo + $i and $foo & $i //tried all of these (at differnt times)
}

or ya know..something like that which is a bit more elaborate...but it doesnt work...so yeah the first iteration of the loop I want it to read foo1, second foo2 etc...how do you do this?

Thanks

[NogDog]

My first suggestion would be to use an array, instead:

$foo = array();
while(<blah blah blah>)
{
   $foo[$i] = 'some value';
   $i++;
}

If you really need to use separate scalar variables, you could use "complex variable notation":

while(<blah blah blah>)
{
   ${'foo'.$i} = 'some value';
   $i++;
}

But I do think the array approach is a lot more manageable.

[Toadums]

Ooo arrays thats a fantastic idea!! thanks. It will get me some use with arrays, since all I have done with them is like mysql_fetch and stuff 🙂