Help! Variables within variables

[Wo0tHigh]

Ok so!

 

in a file called "thing1.php" I have the following...

 

<?php
$thing1['name']="Dave";
?>

 

Then in another page I have this...

 

$num='1';
while($num<'2'){
include_once'things/thing'.$num.'.php';	
echo'$thing$num[name]<br />';//HERE
$num++;
}

 

As you can see from the above, where it says HERE, this is where the problem is! I need to display $thing1[name], 1 being retrevied from a variable. Any ideas how?

 

Thank you very much! Dan

[marcus]

$thing = array();
$thing[1]['name'] = "Dave";
$thing[2]['name'] = "Cheryl";
$thing[3]['name'] = "Marcus aka the best name";

for($i=1;$i<=3;$i++){
include_once "things/thing". $i .".php";

echo $thing[$i]['name'] . "<br>\n";
}

 

que?

[uniflare]

or a simpler way would be:

 

$num='1';
while($num<'2'){
include_once'things/thing'.$num.'.php';
$varname = "thing".$num;
$var = $$varname;
echo'$var[name]<br />';//HERE
$num++;
}

[kenrbnsn]

The problem is here

<?php
echo'$var[name]<br />';//HERE
?>

 

Variables contained in strings delimited by single quotes are not expanded. You would want to do something like

<?php
echo $var[name] . '<br />';//HERE
?>

 

Ken