note 87564 deleted from language.variables.variable by cmb

Note Submitter: nick at customdesigns dot ca ---- On the topic of variable variables with arrays, I have a simple function that solves the issue. It works for both indexed and associative arrays, and allows use with superglobals. <?php function VariableArray($arr, $string) { preg_match_all('/\[([^\]]*)\]/', $string, $arr_matches, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER); $return = $arr; foreach($arr_matches[1] as $dimension) { $return = $return[$dimension]; } return $return; } $test = array('one' => 'two', 'four' => array(8)); $foo = 'test'; $bar = $$foo; $baz = "[one]"; $var = VariableArray($bar, $baz); //$var now contains 'two' $baz = "[four][0]"; $var = VariableArray($bar, $baz); //$var now contains int(8) ?> You can simply pass in a superglobal as the first argument. Note for associative arrays don't put quotes inside the square braces unless you adjust the regexp to accept it. I wanted to keep it simple.