global variables???

[Patrick]

Hi All,

Not sure if this is possible or not. How can I have a global constant
as a part of my variable names. As an example, I want all the ZZZ to
equal "C10" in the snippet of code below.

Why do I want to do this you ask? We are going to have anywhere from 60
to 100 drifters in the ocean sending back gps data and a table of that
data will be on a webpage. I am going to have separate text files with
PHP in them for includes to build the table. I thought rather than
having to create each file and assign the unique variables throughout
the file for each unit I could just tell it once that it is unit C10
save the page and then change the global and save as the next unit name.
I hope I didn't present this query in a confusing manner. Any help or
ideas you can give me are greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Patrick
$ZZZdataFile = "/DATA2/BUOY/ZZZdata.dat";
if (!($fpZZZa = fopen($ZZZdataFile, "r")))
exit("Unable to open $ZZZdataFile.");
while (!feof($fpZZZa))
{
// Assign variables to optional arguments
$buffer = fscanf($fpZZZa, "%s %s %s %s %s %s",
$ZZZdate $ZZZtime, $ZZZlat, $ZZZlon);
}
fclose ($fpZZZa);


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[Jerry Stuckle]

Patrick wrote:

Hi All,

Not sure if this is possible or not. How can I have a global constant as
a part of my variable names. As an example, I want all the ZZZ to equal
"C10" in the snippet of code below.

Why do I want to do this you ask? We are going to have anywhere from 60
to 100 drifters in the ocean sending back gps data and a table of that
data will be on a webpage. I am going to have separate text files with
PHP in them for includes to build the table. I thought rather than
having to create each file and assign the unique variables throughout
the file for each unit I could just tell it once that it is unit C10
save the page and then change the global and save as the next unit name.
I hope I didn't present this query in a confusing manner. Any help or
ideas you can give me are greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Patrick
$ZZZdataFile = "/DATA2/BUOY/ZZZdata.dat";
if (!($fpZZZa = fopen($ZZZdataFile, "r")))
exit("Unable to open $ZZZdataFile.");
while (!feof($fpZZZa))
{
// Assign variables to optional arguments
$buffer = fscanf($fpZZZa, "%s %s %s %s %s %s",
$ZZZdate $ZZZtime, $ZZZlat, $ZZZlon);
}
fclose ($fpZZZa);

I'd use a databaswe instead.

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$ZZZdataFile = "/DATA2/BUOY/ZZZdata.dat";
if (!($fpZZZa = fopen($ZZZdataFile, "r")))
exit("Unable to open $ZZZdataFile.");
while (!feof($fpZZZa))
{
// Assign variables to optional arguments
$buffer = fscanf($fpZZZa, "%s %s %s %s %s %s",
$ZZZdate $ZZZtime, $ZZZlat, $ZZZlon);
}
fclose ($fpZZZa);

I can't try it out here (no PHP installed), but as far as I remember:

$ZZZ = "C10";

${$ZZZ."dataFile"} = "/DATA2/BUOY/".$ZZZ."data.dat";
if (!(${"fp".$ZZZ."a"} = fopen(${$ZZZ."dataFile"}, "r")))
etc.

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[badr]

i pray to undrstand you Patrick what you want to do
?????
are you lose any file or somthing in some other planet

but it is seem to be nice project

but you may create some function and define your new file as GLOBAL
or store all the zzz's in the DB
pleas xplain again (: