Variable Help

[Anon]

Hi...

I am trying to use a variable AS a variable (I think it's called Variable variable). I tried the methods shown on php.net, but was unable to get the results. I am not even sure if what I want can be achieved. Here's the situation.

I've a site of our (say) baseball club.

I've a file called variables.php, which stores many variables, including player names in the following format:

$bob = "Bob Smith";

In the profiles section of my site, it should display Bob's profile when someone clicks on:

http://www.mysite.com/profiles.php?name=bob

I want to use $name (which has the value of "bob" right now) in Bob's profile so that it shows "Bob Smith" in the TITLE of his profile page.

I tried:
$title = "${$name}";
and
$title = "$$name";

but I couldn't get it to work.

I hope I am not asking for impossible, but I'd still be interested to know even if it is impossible.

Please help if you can. Any alternatives would be fine too.

Thank you.

Mehul

[Anon]

hi,

you came close but not quite there yet 🙂
I confess, didn't read the whole post so if this is totally OT, I appologize 🙂) hope this helps anyway...

<snip>

I tried:
$title = "${$name}";
and
$title = "$$name";

</snip>

$foo = "bar";
$bar = "foobar";
echo $$foo // should result "foobar"

Zpiff