Re: Variable name as a variable?

----- Original Message ---- > From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> > To: php-general. <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Mon, October 5, 2009 7:56:48 AM > Subject: [PHP] Variable name as a variable? > > 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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php You mean something like this? $var_name = "text_2"; echo $$var_name; // equivalent to echo $text_2; Regards, Tommy