Re: Variable name as a variable?

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:56:48 +0200 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> 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. > Some reading on this if you're interested: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php You can also access array properties using variables if you like: $foo->some_prop = 'Hi there!'; $bar = 'some_prop'; echo $foo->$bar; Regards, Torben