Execute command from array

[Dave Thomas]

I have an array, say something like this (to build a form):

$commands = array(
"Start Date" => "build_date('st artdate')",
"End Date" => "build_date('en ddate')"
);

Only it will have many more entries. I want to cycle through the array,
and print the first part, but then execute the second part so that it
goes to the function build_date (which returns html code to output).

Right now I am doing it something like this:

echo "<tr><td>St art date</td><td>";
echo build_date('sta rtdate');
echo "</td><td>End date</td><td>";
echo build_date('end date');
echo "</td></tr>";

Because this is going to have many entries in it, it is getting very
repetitive to do it this way! I am stuck on how to execute that function
(and pass the string) with it already being a string itself.

Any ideas?

[Alvaro G Vicario]

*** Dave Thomas wrote/escribió (Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:44:33 -0400):

Any ideas?

Check foreach() and eval().

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[kobi]

foreach ($commands as $key=>$val) {
echo "<tr><td>$k ey</td></tr>";
echo eval("$val;");
}
echo "</td></tr>";