Re: [PHP] Creating a variable from a value From: Richard Lynch (richard <email protected>)
Date: 12/29/00

$TEST = "foo";
$myVar = "TEST';
echo $$myVar;

Note the double $.

Read the PHP Manual section on "variable variables" http://php.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Curts <rob <email protected>>
Newsgroups: php.general
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 4:13 PM
Subject: [PHP] Creating a variable from a value

> This may seem strange... hopefully I can explain the problem well:
> I have a variable named $myVar
>
> $myVar contains a string that may look like anything, for example, we'll
> use "TEST"
>
> I want to take the string value of $myVar and make a variable out of it's
> value.
>
> A code example would be this:
>
> <?
> unset($TEST);
>
> $myVar = "TEST";
>
> createNewVariable($myVar);
>
> if (isset($TEST)) {
> // success
> else
> // error
> ?>
>
> Any idea on how i would create this?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Rob
>
>
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