does this conform with standard and will it break

[pcmad]

i am trying to build a payment gate way library do you think this is the best way of going about it

 

requirements

code to be flexible for different naming conventions

to conform with standards

not to break

 

why i am thinking of doing it this way

one application  could have for addressline1 as add_1 while i different app will have it as add_line_1

 

$test2 = "yay"; 
$test = 'a:1:{s:6:"teatme";s:5:"test2";}'; // think of this a a db field 
$test = unserialize($test);
echo"<pre style=\"text-align:left;\">";
print_r($test);
echo"</pre>";
foreach ($test as $key => $value)
{
    $test[$key] = $$value; 
}
echo"<pre style=\"text-align:left;\">";
print_r($test);
echo"</pre>";

please give us your thoughts

 

[BlueSkyIS]

instead of the foreach loop, you can use one command

 

extract($test);

[pcmad]

no that wont work because

 

the that values and variables that will be stored back into the array eg

 

$test2 = "yay";

 

foreach

{

      $test[$key] = $$value;

becomes

      $test[$key] = $test2;

becomes

      $test[$key] = "yay";

}

 

 

[BlueSkyIS]

it seems you are simply looping over the array and setting each value to itself. exactly what are you trying to accomplish?

[pcmad]

flexibility and uniformity

 

basicy the loop is populating the array with data from the application  but some applications might not have the same variables

 

once array it processed it will then be set off to a payment gate way

 

 

[BlueSkyIS]

i think i understand. the field names are stored in the database and the loop set's the variable names and values based on the stored variable names. i haven't had to program anything like this, so i have no opinion on the method except "it looks fine to me."

[ignace]

no that wont work because

 

the that values and variables that will be stored back into the array

 

You don't need to store it back into the array. The array will still be intact after you looped over it So like BlueSkyIS showed extract will be fine.

[pcmad]

i do need to store in back in to the array the arrz\value need is a reference to the true data