increment a value of variable

learnphp1

I am doing a modifciation on a solutions and i cannot use array because the solutions would crash .

what i want to do is something like this

$a1
$a2
$a3
and so on

how do i make this happen. And i cannot use Arrays.

bradgrafelman

learnphp1 wrote:
i cannot use array because the solutions would crash .

Can you explain why this is? Perhaps you're just not using the array correctly.

learnphp1

bradgrafelman;10971277 wrote:
Can you explain why this is? Perhaps you're just not using the array correctly.

Just because the person who wrote his solution has got 50 variables already and i just need to add few of them. If i write in the form of a variable then the validation code will fail which is already coded.

so i thought i will write a loop to increement the last part of varible but dont know how to do it

something like this

$num = 31 ;
for ($i=0;$i<30;$i++){
		$num++;
	$name.[COLOR="Yellow"]$num[/COLOR] = 'some text' ;

dagon

Variable variables, terrible solutions, reconsider arrays

wyattstorch42

I guess if absolutely necessary, eval() will do the trick.

 for($n = 31; $n <= 61; $n++)
  eval("\$a".$n." = \"some text\"";");

EDIT: Post #42! Joy!
EDIT #2: Nevermind, dagon's solution is better.