Re: manipulating constant name as string

Hi, Monday, January 2, 2006, 4:37:17 AM, you wrote: DG> Hello DG> I am trying to access the constant name as string and not the constant DG> contents. For example, DG> define('myconst', 'const text 1'); DG> $myArray = array() DG> myArray['myconst'] = "this is it" DG> etc. DG> $xmltext=""; DG> foreach ($myArray as $key => $val) { DG> echo "$key = $val\n\n"; DG> $xmltext .= "$xmltext = $xmltext . "<$key> $val </$key>"; DG> } DG> Unfortunately, $key within the string concatenation is translated into DG> the constant value. However, for the echo statement, then $key constant DG> name is displayed. Is there a way to keep the constant name rather its DG> value when manipulating it as a string? DG> thanks, DG> Daniel drop the single quotes to use the constant: myArray[myconst] = "this is it" -- regards, Tom