RE: [PHP] Newbie Question: Variables on the fly

Thanks for the reply Denis, Let me elaborate a bit. I have a php page which I want to pass a series of variables via a url string. eg myPage.php?dataPoint1=10&dataPoint2=20&dataPoint3=30 The thing is I won;t know until runtime how many dataPoints there will be so I have also included 1 additional url variable eg myPage.php?totalDataPoints=3&dataPoint1=10&dataPoint2=20&dataPoint3=30 From there I want to take those data points and do several things with each of them. The keep things simple lets say I want to multiply each by 3 and then divide it by 2 and put it into a new variable (under the same naming system). eg $xtemp=$HTTP_GET_VARS[totalDataPoints]; do {

        A line here which will take each dataPoint and multiply by 3 and divide by 2 and assign it to a new variable with the same numbering system (eg $myNewVar1=$HTTP_GET_VARS[dataPoint1]*3/2;
        $xtemp--;

} while ($xtemp>0); Make any more sense? Thanks. At 01:24 AM 28/05/2004, Dennis Seavers wrote:

Maybe others will catch on to your intention, but I think you need to provide a bit more information. For example, what variables do you want to create (drawn from a file source, or create on the fly)? Where will they come from (a database, perhaps)? You could create a script that creates variables from scratch, following a (hopefully) finite mathematical formula. Or you could manipulate data that already exists, turning this data into some kind of variables. Ultimately, you'll have to give a better of sense of the end result you'd like. Dennis Seavers [Original Message] From: <csnm@ns.sympatico.ca> To: PHP List <php-general@lists.php.net> Date: 05/27/2004 9:17:11 PM Subject: [PHP] Newbie Question: Variables on the fly Hello, I'm sure this is a newbie question but I don't know the syntax. I want to create a series of variables within a php script at runtime with a for loop. eg myVar1 myVar2 myVar3 etc.... What is the proper syntax to do this? Thanks, Tim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php