[SOLVED] Array to Variables

[bdmovies]

$info is an array:

 

<?php 
foreach($info as $key => $value) {
   $key = $value;
   echo "$key = ".$value . "<br/>";
}
?>

 

This prints VALUE = VALUE, not KEY = VALUE.

 

Why wouldn't the key get stored as the variable name?

 

This particular array comes from a form with nearly several inputs, so I wanted to streamline the variable naming process by using the loop, what am I doing wrong?

[akitchin]

that's because you're just assigning the value of $value to the variable $key. if you want to use $key as the variable name, you need to use variable variable notation:

 

$$key = $value;

 

however, the extract() function will do this for you.

[bdmovies]

Thanks very much, I knew I had seen a function that could do it, just couldn't remember. And I figured I was missing something simple, like the extra $.

 

Thanks again.