Re: dynamic variabels

Hi, At Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:50:52 +0100 (CET), Tijmen Hennink wrote: > Doen anybody know how to solve the following problem. > I'm trying to prevent to use a large switch statement but unfortunately > this code doesn't work yet. > function test($varname) { > $var = "\$this->" . $varname; > $selectedarray =$this->layer->getTrefwoordenArray($var); > } '$this->$varname' is correct. In this case: function test($varname) { $var = $this->$varname; $selectedarray =$this->layer->getTrefwoordenArray($var); } > The normal approach would be > switch($var) { > case 1: > $selectedarray=$this->layer->getTrefwoordenArray($this->1); > break; > case 2: > $selectedarray=$this->layer->getTrefwoordenArray($this->2); > break; > // and so on for about 20 variabeles. > } But, is '1', '2' correct variable name? I seem the variable name must start with alphabet character, not number. -- koyama@hoge.org koyama@beatraft.com KOYAMA Tetsuji BeatCraft, Inc., Tokyo, Japan.