If you use the square brackets then you don't use the dot so it should be:
dataProvider="{chartXML2.lastResult[month].day}"
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Maciek Sakrejda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm no e4xpert, but
>
> dataProvider="{chartXML2.lastResult.[month].day}"
>
> should do it.
>
> --
> Maciek Sakrejda
> Truviso, Inc.
> http://www.truviso.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brad.bueche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Embedding String Variable in dataprovider name
> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:40:25 -0000
>
> Really what I need to be able to do is insert the variable name in this:
>
> dataProvider="{chartXML2.lastResult.month.day}"
>
> I need to replace the "month" with a string variable name (i.e public
> var monthName = "January";)
>
> I also need to do the same for the categoryfield as it will not let me
> do categoryfield=$String.
>
> In PHP this is incredibly easy to do. You just say blah=$string . In
> fact, in PHP you can embed variable names everywhere. Its very
> powerful. For instance, in php, for the dataprovider issue above, i'd
> just do
>
> dataProvider="{chartXML2.lastResult.$StringName.day}"
>
> and it'd work just fine. Whats the syntax for doing this in Flex?
>
