dynamic variable names

How are they created?

[brucebertrand]

Ok, I've got something like this:

 if ( $host[$i][detail1stuff]!= "" ){
  some_code_here;
 }
 if ( $host[$i][detail2stuff]!= "" ){
  some_code_here;
 }
 etc...

I want to do something like this:

for ($count = 1; $count <= 100; $count++ ){
 if ( $host[$i][details{$count}stuff]!= "" ){
  some_code_here;
 }
}

However, the above doesn't work.
Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks.

[coopster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, brucebertrand.

If you use double-quotation marks, PHP will parse that variable for you.

if ( $host[$i]["details{$count}stuff"]!= "" ){

[brucebertrand]

Thanks for the quick response.

I also remembered about string concatenation operator.

So:

 if ( $host[$i][details.$count.stuff]!= "" )

also works.

[coopster]

That's true, but without any quotation marks around the array index PHP is going to complain about an undefined index. Well, it will if you have your error_reporting() [php.net] on during development (which is a good idea, by the way).

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