Once I had a bit of experience with variable variables, I found them very useful.
But I did discover that you can't embed variable variables (or values from arrays) in the SQL statements I was sending to MySQL. I had to create a temporary variable for use in my SQL statements. I'm not sure why, whether I was missing something. Rita Mikusch -----Original Message----- From: HeyJim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:26 PM To: Jackson Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Variables within variable names I agree with Jason and Miguel, but if you really want to do this, you could try: $type = "basic"; $user = $type."_user"; $$user = "jaxn"; echo $basic_user; I can see where something like this *could* be useful, but I'd still use the arrays. Jim. At 12:43 PM 5/2/02, Jackson Miller wrote: >I want to do something along the lines of: > >$type = "basic"; >$$type_user = "jaxn"; >echo $basic_user; > >and have the output be "jaxn". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
