note 24534 modified in language.variables.variable by danbrown

You can also use variable variables and the string concat operator to generate suffixed (or prefixed) variables based on a base name. For instance, if you wanted to dynamically generate this series of variables: base1_suffix1 base1_suffix2 base2_suffix1 base2_suffix2 base3_suffix1 base3_suffix2 You can do this: <?php $bases = array('base1', 'base2', 'base3'); $suffixes = array('suffix1', suffix2); foreach($bases as $base) { foreach($suffixes as $suffix) { ${$base.$suffix} = "whatever"; #...etc } } ?> --was-- You can also use variable variables and the string concat operator to generate suffixed (or prefixed) variables based on a base name. For instance, if you wanted to dynamically generate this series of variables: base1_suffix1 base1_suffix2 base2_suffix1 base2_suffix2 base3_suffix1 base3_suffix2 You can do this: $bases = array('base1', 'base2', 'base3'); $suffixes = array('suffix1', suffix2); foreach($bases as $base) { foreach($suffixes as $suffix) { ${$base.$suffix} = "whatever"; #...etc } } http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php