If you want to process the list when they submit the form you can do
something like this:
foreach($_REQUEST as $key => $value ) {
if( ereg("user([0-9]*)", $key, $match_ary) ) {
#go crazy;
}
}
??
-philip
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Jason Bell wrote:
> Yeah, I thought so too, but variable variables doesn't seem to provide for
> this.... to add a little bit of detail to what I am doing, it is a user
> list, and I want to have a check box next to each user so that you can
> select 1 or more users for deletion. Each checkbox will be named User$id
> ($id of course being the numerical id of the user in the database)
>
>
> I did try doing somehting like $User{ereg ([0-9])} but it doesn't seem to
> work, or I'm doing it wrong.
>
>
> I guess maybe an easier way is if I could somehow drop all of the selected
> id's into an array? Then I wouldn't need to worry about needing to determine
> which variables exist.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Jason Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Variable wildcards
>
>
> > Sounds like what you want is Variable Variables.
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jason Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:24 PM
> > Subject: Variable wildcards
> >
> >
> > are there wildcard characters for variables?
> >
> > Lets say that I have a varable that always starts with $user but then has
> > the 2 digit user id attached to the end, so it could be $user12 or $user28
> >
> >
> > is there a way to grab these? sort of like in unix standards, where I
> could
> > use user?? or user* ?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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