note 108141 added to language.variables.variable

Unlike as stated near the bottom of this thread, using variables to point to an object does not always work. In my case, that is the object returned from new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr). Once my nodes got 3 and 4 deep to access customer information from orders, I knew something drastic had to be done. <?php $xmlstr ="<xml><foo><bar><you>Blah</you></bar></foo></xml>"; $xml=SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr); // no matter what you feed it, it works... $lvl1="\$xml->foo"; echo n($lvl1."->bar->you"); // n will return Blah as we would hope. function n($node){ global $xml; return eval("return $node;"); } ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 98.175.243.214 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/108141 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108141/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108141/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108141/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108141/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108141/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108141/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108141 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/108141 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php