Re: Name of variable to string
| From: | David Giragosian | Date: | Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:53:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Name of variable to string | ||
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On 2/8/08, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, February 8, 2008 9:14 am, tedd wrote:
> > From a variable with the name of $this_variable -- how do I get a
> > string 'this_variable' ?
>
> You don't...
>
> Consider this:
>
> function foo($bar){
> //what would your function output?
> }
>
> $baz = 3;
> foo($baz);
>
> --
If you dynamically created the variable:
${ 'something' . '_' . 'somethingElse' };
then you'd have access to it via the variable name parts.
David