Dynamically Add Number to End of Variable Name

[JasonHarper]

Hello!

 

I'm having a mental block and can't seem to accomplish the below:

 

I have variables named in this fashion:  $item1, $item2, $item3, $item4, $item5, etc.

 

I'm retrieving values from a database and have a variable to hold an item count.  Example:

 

$itemCount = 1;

 

//DO DATABASE STUFF

 

$itemCount++;

 

What I would like to do is assign values to the item variables based on the item count (i.e., if $itemCount were to be currently set to 5, it would assign the value retrieved from the DB to the variable $item5).  I can't seem to figure out how to do this...

 

Thank you for any help!!

Jason

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Please, just use an array - $item[1], $item[2], ... your code will be simpler and it will execute 3x faster than using the code needed to create a series of numbered variables.

[JasonHarper]

That worked - thank you!

[gizmola]

You got good advice, but just in case you were wondering, PHP allows for this type of syntax:

 

$basename = 'foo';

for ($x = 1; $x   $tempname = $basename . $x;
  $$tempname = $x;
}

echo "$foo1 
\n";
echo "$foo2 
\n";
echo "$foo3 
\n";

//etc

 

This isn't used much because it makes for some very confusing and convoluted code, but the '$$' syntax does work.