how to combine the results of two variables to echo another variable?

[Dave]

Hello,
I'm a somewhat PHP newbie, so please bear with me.

Here is what I am trying to do:

$foobar = "blah blah";
$a = "foo";
$b = "bar";
$fooboo = "$a" . "$b";
echo $fooboo

I know my syntax here is not correct so I am looking for the function
to make $fooboo echo out the $foobar variable "blah blah", and not as
"foobar".

Any help is appreciated.

[Sacs]

Dave wrote:

Hello,
I'm a somewhat PHP newbie, so please bear with me.

Here is what I am trying to do:

$foobar = "blah blah";
$a = "foo";
$b = "bar";
$fooboo = "$a" . "$b";
echo $fooboo

I know my syntax here is not correct so I am looking for the function
to make $fooboo echo out the $foobar variable "blah blah", and not as
"foobar".

Any help is appreciated.

Variable variables:
http://nz.php.net/manual/en/language...s.variable.php

$foobar = "blah blah";
$a = "foo";
$b = "bar";
$fooboo = "$a" . "$b";

$fooboo = $$fooboo;

echo $fooboo

Sacs

[Ewoud Dronkert]

Sacs wrote:

Variable variables:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/languag...s.variable.php
Yes. But why......:
$fooboo = "$a" . "$b";

Just do: $fooboo = $a . $b;
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[Sacs]

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:

Sacs wrote:

Variable variables:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/languag...s.variable.php

Yes. But why......:

Variable variables are one of the most powerfull features of php I've
found. Very usefull when you dont know how many variables to be
processed in a form for e.g.

for( $i=1; $i <= $num_fields; $i++) {
$blah = "field_" . $i;
// $blah is now "field_1" first time through the loop

$blah = $$blah;
// now $blah holds what was input into the appropriate input
}

echo '<form>
<input type=text name="field_1">
<input type=text name="field_2">
<input type=text name="field_3">
<input type=hidden name="num_field s" value=3>
<input type=submit>
</form>';

$fooboo = "$a" . "$b";

Just do: $fooboo = $a . $b;

With just $fooboo = $a . $b; then $fooboo is set to "foobar" not "blah
blah" as op wanted.

Sacs

[Ewoud Dronkert]

Sacs wrote:

$fooboo = "$a" . "$b";

Just do: $fooboo = $a . $b;

With just $fooboo = $a . $b; then $fooboo is set to "foobar" not "blah
blah" as op wanted.

Sigh. I meant: why use the quotes, they're not needed! (and yes, then use
$$fooboo, just like in the code a few posts up).
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[Philip Olson]

Or simply use arrays instead (preferred by most):

<form method="POST">
<input type=text name="field[]">
<input type=text name="field[]">
<input type=text name="field[foo]">
<input type=submit>
</form>

foreach ($_POST['field'] as $key => $value) {
...
}

http://php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.arrays

[BKDotCom]

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:

Sigh. I meant: why use the quotes, they're not needed! (and yes, then use $$fooboo, just like in the code a few posts up).

It seems the PHP community likes to put quotes around variables.
It's baffeling.

[Sacs]

Philip Olson wrote:

Or simply use arrays instead (preferred by most):

<form method="POST">
<input type=text name="field[]">
<input type=text name="field[]">
<input type=text name="field[foo]">
<input type=submit>
</form>

foreach ($_POST['field'] as $key => $value) {
...
}

http://php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.arrays

Where's the fun in that! My way was much harder to comprehend, must be
perl haunting me....

Actually, never thought of passing back an array in a form... hmmm....

:-)
Sacs

[Sacs]

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:

Sigh. I meant: why use the quotes, they're not needed! (and yes, then use
$$fooboo, just like in the code a few posts up).

Oh. Wrong end of stick. :-)

And I don't know why so many people put quotes around variables in PHP.
*shrug*

Sacs

[Hannes Dorbath]

There is no need for variable variables at all. Use arrays for stuff
like this. Yeah, v-vars are indeed powerfull, powerfull to lead ppl to
unpredictable clutter up the root of the namespace and write ugly code
-- like demonstrated below in all beauty.

On 29.04.2005 00:51, Sacs wrote:

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:

Variable variables are one of the most powerfull features of php I've
found. Very usefull when you dont know how many variables to be
processed in a form for e.g.

for( $i=1; $i <= $num_fields; $i++) {
$blah = "field_" . $i;
// $blah is now "field_1" first time through the loop

$blah = $$blah;
// now $blah holds what was input into the appropriate input
}