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hey I've little question;

PHP Code:


		
			
$get = $_REQUEST['NUMBER'];
$num."".$get = "blbla";

echo $num3;

// should echo blbla

I have to echo the changable value name. But its not correct. How do you think I can get it in correct way ?

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Originally Posted by CΛSTΞX (Post 31081)

hey I've little question;

PHP Code:


		
			
$get = $_REQUEST['NUMBER'];
$num."".$get = "blbla";

echo $num3;

// should echo blbla

I have to echo the changable value name. But its not correct. How do you think I can get it in correct way ?

What you are doing is impossible. You can not name variables like they are strings. Your closest match would be to use an array.

PHP Code:


		
			
$get = $_REQUEST['NUMBER'];
$num[$get] = "blbla";

echo $num[$get];

Variable variables: http://php.net/manual/en/language.va...s.variable.php

I'm not sure if you can combine two variables like this

PHP Code:


		
			
${$num . $get}

But one variable works

PHP Code:


		
			
$var = $num . $get;
$$var

Thanks Eric, that is interesting. I wasn't know that.

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Originally Posted by Salathe (Post 31086)

Interesting, I never knew one could do that... I do know that I will never use it though.

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Originally Posted by Village Idiot (Post 31088)

Interesting, I never knew one could do that... I do know that I will never use it though.

Absolutely the right stance to take.

A rare example of curly-brace-madness being useful comes from lovely web APIs provided by big names (here's looking at you Google and Yahoo!) which provide JSON-formatted responses containing identifiers like foo$bar or foo:bar which when converted directly to stdClass properties (via json_decode) cannot be accessed with the normal syntax (e.g. $object->foo$bar), calling for something like $object->{'foo$bar'} instead.

As for actual variables names, I can't think of the last time that I used the ${...} syntax for production code outside of a double-quoted string; I'm uncertain if it has ever happened.

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Originally Posted by delayedinsanity (Post 31091)

... I just like coming up with fictional new ways to get back ...

How about you keep this kind of stuff to yourself, next time? Thanks. ^^

Alrighty, point taken.