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Using a variable's content as the name of another variable?

Using a variable's content as the name of another variable?

failtofail	26 Feb, 2009 - 11:51 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 26 Feb, 2009 Posts: 1	Hello! I have recently been wondering if there was a method by I could using a variable's content as the name of another variable. A longer method of doing so could be: CODE if ($input == 'one') $variable = $variable_one; if ($input == 'two') $variable = $variable_two; if ($input == 'three') $variable = $variable_three; ... However, I have been trying to find a way to automate this by writing something theoretically similar to the following: $variable = $variable_$input. The closest I have been able to come up with is to simply use an array for the pre-existing variables (eg. $variable[$input]), but I wanted to know if there was a method of doing this with separate variables. This post has been edited by failtofail: 26 Feb, 2009 - 11:52 PM
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Valek	RE: Using A Variable's Content As The Name Of Another Variable? 27 Feb, 2009 - 01:02 AM Post #2
The Real SkyNet Joined: 8 Nov, 2008 Posts: 627 Thanked: 43 times Dream Kudos: 175 My Contributions	Sounds like what you're wanting to work with is Variables Variables. Give that link a look Of course, you could shove them all into an array and use extract() on them with the EXTR_PREFIX_ALL flag, too. This post has been edited by Valek: 27 Feb, 2009 - 01:10 AM
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