Re: How can I access the value in a variable whos name is in a string
| From: | Miguel Cruz | Date: | Sat, 18 May 2002 22:01:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How can I access the value in a variable whos name is in a string | ||
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On Sat, 18 May 2002, Henry wrote:
> $variablename="variable";
> eval("\$".$variablename."=13;");
> echo $variable;
>
> This works fine!! It echoes "13";
>
> But this doesn't ->
>
> echo eval("\"$variablename\"");
>
> Why??
Because a variable just standing there on its own doesn't have a return
value. You can echo eval("return \"$variablename\"");
or you can just echo $$variablename;
miguel