Re: Variable name as a variable?

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:56 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I need to store a variable name as a variable. Note quite a C-style > pointer, but a way to access one variable who's name is stored in > another variable. > > As part of a spam-control measure, a certain public-facing form will > have dummy rotating text fields and a hidden field that will describe > which text field should be considered, like this: > > input type="text" name="text_1" > input type="text" name="text_2" > input type="text" name="text_3" > input type="hidden" name="real_field" value="text_2" > > As this will be a very general-purpose tool, a switch statement on the > hidden field's value would not be appropriate here. Naturally, the > situation will be much more complex and this is a non-obfuscated > generalization of the HTML side of things which should describe the > problem that I need to solve on the server side. > > Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > What's wrong with this: $user_value = $_REQUEST[$_REQUEST['real_field']]; Obviously this isn't production worthy code, you'd really need to put the whole thing in a ternary if to check if the values actually exist, but this would definitely solve your problem. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk