Re: Variable Nightmare

Yes. PHP supports this feature you need. for loop $i { $temp="value".$i; $myNewVar = $$temp; } Hope it help. Ryan Thompson <rthomp@sympatico.ca> 10/09/2003 01:38 PM To: "richard cook" <web@nwmbrand.com>, php-general@lists.php.net cc: Subject: Re: [PHP] Variable Nightmare The server probably has global variables turn off Try $_GET['value1'], $_GET['value2'] If you using post method then replace $_GET with $_POST On Thursday 09 October 2003 00:51, richard cook wrote: > Hi all, > I have a problem that I cant solve, any help would be welcomed! > > > I have a form which is repeated by a for loop, the form has one element an > input field. The problem im having is the name of this field for example > ive used the following to name it: > > for loop here > > <input name="value<?php echo $x;?>" type="text" size="4" > maxlength="2" > value="<?=$cart_Array[$x][1]?>" /> > > } > > So the input name will increase with each loop like so: > > value1 > value2 > value3 > ... > > This works fine, the source code from the generated page looks as it > should. So the big question is how do I get to the variable name when the > form is processed, ive tried everything i know. if I use hard coding it > works : > > $myNewVar = $value1; > > But the whole point of this is that the values need to be pulled out of > another for loop: > > for loop blah > $myNewVar = $valueX; > } > > > > > I hope im explaining this well..... > > > > Regards > > R -- Ryan Thompson rthomp@sympatico.ca http://osgw.sourceforge.net ============================== "A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken" --Unknown -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php