Posted by Dave on 08/05/06 20:52

Hi,
I'm reasonably proficient in PHP but have been asked how to do
something which has got me stumped. Hence, my posting:

I want to create a small number of variables, $pos1, $pos2 ... $pos5
within a loop and assign them values from an array, but creating the
variable names with incrementing numbers, well I've no idea how the PHP
syntax for it works.

========== START CODE ==========
<?php

$x=5;
$myarray = array('a','b','c','d','e');

for($a=0;$a<$x;$a++){
$pos.$a = $myarray[$a]; //Create $pos0 here on first loop,
// $pos1 next loop and so forth..
}

//Test assigned variable
echo $pos3; // $pos3 should equal 'd'
exit;

?>

========== END CODE ==========

Any ideas?

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