Re: Variable question

On 11-10-01 02:03 PM, Mike Mackintosh wrote:

On Oct 1, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Ron Piggott wrote:

If $correct_answer has a value of 3 what is the correct syntax needed to use echo to display the value of $trivia_answer_3? I know this is incorrect, but along the lines of what I am wanting to do: echo $trivia_answer_$correct_answer; $trivia_answer_1 = “1,000”; $trivia_answer_2 = “1,250”; $trivia_answer_3 = “2,500”; $trivia_answer_4 = “5,000”; Ron www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info

Best bet would to toss this into either an object or array for simplification, otherwise that type of syntax would need the use of eval. example: eval('echo $trivia_answer_'.$correct_answer.';'); best bet would be to.. $trivia_answer = array(); $trivia_answer[1] = 1000; $trivia_answer[2] = 1250; $trivia_answer[3] = 2500; $trivia_answer[4] = 5000; echo $trivia_answer[$correct_answer];

Agreed the OP's value list isn't optimal, but eval is not needed to address the solution: <?php

    $trivia_answer_1 = "1,000";
    $trivia_answer_2 = "1,250";
    $trivia_answer_3 = "2,500";
    $trivia_answer_4 = "5,000";

    $answer
        = isset( ${'trivia_answer_'.$correct_answer} )
        ? ${'trivia_answer_'.$correct_answer}
        : 'Not found';

    echo $answer."\n";

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