Re: $answers[answer$n]

answers$n. php tries to concate the constant answers with the variable $n, but you forgot the concatenation operator ".". i assume that answers should be a string and is not a constant, therefore $answer["answers".$n] is right. if answers is a constant use $answer[answers.$n]; but a better way of what you try to accomplish would be a array using two dimensions: $answer["answers"][$n] $answer["question"][$n] ...etc or if you only have "answers" as key use: $answer[$n] if you want to send form data as array, using more than one dimension, do the following: <input type="text" name="answers[answer][1]" value=""> <input type="text" name="answers[answer][2]" value=""> <input type="text" name="answers[answer][3]" value=""> or <input type="text" name="answers[answer][]" value=""> <input type="text" name="answers[answer][]" value=""> <input type="text" name="answers[answer][]" value=""> Which is pretty much the same. now on the processing page you can do: ForEach($answers as $val) { Foreach ($val as $answer) { // do something with one of the answers } } Regards Michael "Jule" <jslootbeek@clarku.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:02051716404700.28871@localhost... Hey guys, i'm getting this error whe i try to access this variable. $answers[answer$n] Parse error: parse error, expecting `']'' in /home/blindtheory/web/quiz/add_quiz/add_quiz_process_2.php on line 36 the variable $answer[answers$n] comes from a form on the preceding page in which a number of answers has been entered. the number of answers is up to the user and can vary from 2 to 15. not the $n comes from a for loop whcih enteres the answers into a database since i do not know how many answers each user has used. why am i getting this error? and is there a way around it? following is the for() loop in which this story takes place. thanks Jule --SCRIPT-- for ($n = 1; $n <= $quiz[number_answers]; $n++) { $table = "$quiz[code]_answers"; $value = "$answers[answer$n]"; $query_alter_table = "ALTER table $table ADD answer$n TEXT NUT NULL"; $query_add_answers = "INSERT INTO $table (answer$n) VALUES($value)"; if (mysql_db_query($database_glob, $query_alter_table, $link_glob) AND (mysql_db_query($database_glob, $query_add_answer, $link_glob)); echo "Answer $n has successfully been added to the Quiz<br>\n"; } else { echo mysql_error(); } echo "Click here to continue"; } --SCRIPT-- -- |\/\__________________________/\/| | Jule Slootbeek | | jslootbeek@clarku.edu | | http://blindtheory.cjb.net | | __________________________ | |/\/ \/\|