echo $class->string; reserved/function names?

[Marco000]

First of apologies for any inconvenience if this has been posted before as I’m unsure of what it could possibly be called/come under besides something like "reserved variables"?

 

I have a class that pulls a result out of a database and loads them into class variables by the database field name like the following

 

// Load the results into the class
foreach ($array as $name => $value) {
$this->$name = $value;
}

 

This works fine as expected but the problem occurs when I try to echo one of the fields names in the database (it’s called "string") It ends up being like echo $advert->string; and it’s not outputting anything? In Dreamweaver its showing the class variable "string" as a different colour so I’m guessing something isn’t right in terms of "string" being reserved or a function?

 

How could I get the final/desired output/action I’m looking for here as I’m completely stumped! I normally Google for my solutions but have no idea what I have come across is called.

 

PS. Sorry for anything I do wrong, just signed up and don’t know the ropes yet in terms of acceptable behaviour, community expectations and ways to post queries.

[Renlok]

well you could do it like

$reserved = array('string');
// Load the results into the class
foreach ($array as $name => $value) {
if(in_array($name, $reserved)) $name = $name . '0';
$this->$name = $value;
}

[Marco000]

But that means i might aswell change the field name in the database as it acomplishs the same thing?

 

also is there a list of reserved variable names? to look over to increase my knowledge of this? I notice this happens with "int" too (echo $object->int)