From: illicitcriminal at gmail dot com
Operating system: Windows
PHP version: 4.3.10
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Name Variable After Variables
Description:
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I think it'd be VERY useful to be able to declare/state variables based on
the value of another variable. I've run into situations where it would save
me a bit of time if this were possible.
In "Reproduce Code", I'll show you a piece that would be useful for an
encryption function that I wrote.
Reproduce code:
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/*
Giving Letters Numerical Values
*/
$alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
$length = strlen($alphabet);
for ($cur=0;$cur<$length;$cur++){
$letter = substr($alphabet, $current, $current+1);
$numberVal = $current+1;
/*
This is where my idea comes in to play.
To be able to name the variable "a",
referred to as $a (and b,c,d so on...).
I've used the syntax ^$var to define the naming
of the variable dependant on the value of
$var (another variable)...
*/
^$letter = $numberVal;
}
echo $a.'-'.$b.'-'.$c.'-'.$A.'-'.$B.'-'.$C;
Expected result:
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1-2-3-26-27-28
Actual result:
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Probably an "unexpexted '^'" parse error.
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Submitted twice:
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register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33038&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33038&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33038&r=dst
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Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33038&r=float
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