Re: variable hell

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, mario wrote: > Hi all > > I have few variables in this format: > > $isproductssorttext = "150"; > $isofferssorttext = "250"; > $isnewproductssorttext = "350"; > > $isproductscount = "50"; > $isofferscount = "30"; > $isnewproductscount = "20"; > etc.... > > > What I want to do is have a variable > e.g. $x = "products"; > > and create from that, the variable $is'products'sorttext > (<--$isproductssorttext) and use its value > > so if $x was "offers" on echo I would have (250) <-- "$isofferssorttext" > if $x was newproducts on echo I would have (350) <-- > "$isnewproductssorttext" Hello I believe what you are after is ${'is'.$x.'sorttext'} but I would rather use the nfollowing approach as it is much more readable and easier to debug: $issorttext = array('offers' = 250, 'newproducts' => 250, ...) and then use it: echo $issorttext['offers']; -- Cheers, --Jyry C|:-( C|:-/ C|========8-O C|8-/ C|:-(