RE: [PHP] Creating a variable from a value

What you want to do is called variable variables... http://www.php.net/manual/language.variables.variable.php you would do : $$myVar = "foo"; and then doing "echo $TEST" would return "foo" -----Original Message----- From: Rob Curts [mailto:rob@siliconcarne.net] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 21:54 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Creating a variable from a value This may seem strange... hopefully I can explain the problem well: I have a variable named $myVar $myVar contains a string that may look like anything, for example, we'll use "TEST" I want to take the string value of $myVar and make a variable out of it's value. A code example would be this: <? unset($TEST); $myVar = "TEST"; createNewVariable($myVar); if (isset($TEST)) { // success else // error ?> Any idea on how i would create this? Many thanks in advance, Rob -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net