Creating a new variable name by combining other variable names

[cliftonbazaar]

$line_up=1;
WHILE($player = mysql_fetch_array($players)) {
  $home'$line_up'[0]=$player['playerID'];
  $line_up++;
}

 

What I am trying to get is the variable $home1[0] to be the players ID.  I have tried other variations of

$home'$line_up'[0]

  but can't get it to work  :'(

 

Please note that I cannot create an array instead as it would create a multidimensional array and I have read that I can't implode() that.

[trq]

An array would be allot more efficient, but whatever....

 

$line_up=1;
WHILE($player = mysql_fetch_array($players)) {
  ${'home' . $line_up} = $player['playerID'];
  $line_up++;
}

[JAY6390]

I agree with thorpe. You should use an array. This is what arrays were designed for

$home[$lineup] = $player['playerID'];