Using 2 Strings to in place of one

[Anon]

I have a web page where the following var is set for the page:

$ticker="ABC"

I also have the php file use an include command that reads a whole bunch of Strings. There are a few which apply to ABC, such as $ABCCL=10 , $ABCMC="47,100,500" and $ABCFC=340 .

Now, I want the page to echo those variables. ($ABCCL , $ABCMC and $ABCFC).

I have ALOT of pages like this.

Instead of typing the direct variable (ex: $ABCMC) on every page, it would be MUCH easier to have it do
$ticker(CL) or $ticker(MC), etc.

Only problem is, if I say $tickerMC in the page, PHP doesn't recognize "$tickerMC" because it can't figure to put the $ABC as the variable first ($ABCMC) .

Anyone can help me here do this?

[yelvington]

I don't quite understand what you're trying to do, but every time I see somebody using variables like this:

$foo1
$foo2

et cetera, it's a red flag that you ought to be using an array, an associative array, or an object.

[Anon]

How would use it in an array, please give me an example.

Here's a sample of what I'm trying to do:

$var1="Hello";
$var2="goodbye";

$str1="apples";
$str2="oranges";

$pagevariable="var"

echo "$pagevariable(2)"; // ie: $var2 (goodbye)

on another webpage I would have

$pagevariable="str"

echo "$pagevariable(2)"; // ie: $str2 (oranges)

[polson]

A few related thoughts :

$var = array('Hello','Goodbye');

echo $var[0]; // Hello
echo $var[1]; // Goodbye

$pagevariable = $var;

echo $pagevariable[0]; // Hello
echo $pagevariable[1]; // Goodbye

$pagevariable[] = 'Later';
$pagevariable[blah] = 'Some other day';

echo $pagevariable[2]; // Later
echo $pagevariable[blah]; // Some other day

foreach ($pagevariable as $key => $value) {

echo "<br>$key : $value";

}

Gives us
<br>0 : Hello
<br>1 : Goodbye
<br>2 : Later
<br>blah : Some other day

[Anon]

Thanks. I got it with an array..

Here's some of the array:

$RDOT=array(0.10,0.00,"22,000","2,200",0,0);
$RNWK=array(8.25,-0.41,"1,397,000","11,525,250","1,301,025,000","702,075,000");
$RVSN=array(10.19,-0.81,"234,000","2,383,992","189,496,800","38,714,400");

// NOTICE $RNWK

$ticker=$RNWK;

echo "$ticker[5] should be the float cap 702 million<br>";
echo "$ticker[4] should be the mkt cap 1.3 billion<br>";
echo "$ticker[3] should be the traded 11.53 million<br>";
echo "$ticker[2] should be the volume 1.3 million<br>";
echo "$ticker[1] should be the float cap -0.41<br>";
echo "$ticker[0] should be the close 8.25<br>";

---

It shows the following:

702,075,000 should be the float cap 702 million
1,301,025,000 should be the mkt cap 1.3 billion
11,525,250 should be the traded 11.53 million
1,397,000 should be the volume 1.3 million
-0.41 should be the float cap -0.41
8.25 should be the close 8.25

Alas...another satisfied customer....Thanks to you and PHP builder!! And thanks to PHP!

[sepodati]

I can't believe no one mentioned variable variables...sure, arrays are probably the better way to go, but variable variables can come in handy...

$var1="Hello";
$var2="goodbye";

$str1="apples";
$str2="oranges";

$num = 2;
$pagevariable="var" . $num;
echo $$pagevariable; //echos goodbye

$num = 1;
$pagevariable="str" . $num;
echo $$pagevariable; //echos apples

---John Holmes...