note 7779 modified in language.variables.variable by irc-html

here's a workaround which i've found useful when trying to assign values to variable variables within functions, (which, needless to say, seems to be buggy) function altervar() { #sets $bob[1]='whatever'; $var='bob'; global $$var; $temp=$$var; $temp[1]='whatever'; $$var=$temp; } if you try to alter $$var[1] directly it doesn't work, even though it's globaled. --was-- <pre> here's a workaround which i've found useful when trying to assign values to variable variables within functions, (which, needless to say, seems to be buggy) function altervar() { #sets $bob[1]='whatever'; $var='bob'; global $$var; $temp=$$var; $temp[1]='whatever'; $$var=$temp; } if you try to alter $$var[1] directly it doesn't work, even though it's globaled. </pre> http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php