Posted by ZeldorBlat on 01/11/07 16:43

blackberryoctopus wrote:
> I am receiving 40 variables from an external source into my php script.
> I need to have for loop cycle through those and assign them to
> variables in the php script. I am unsure of the syntax, but it would be
> something like the following
>
> for($i=0;$i<40;$i++){
> $phpvar+$i = receivedData+$i
> }
>
>
> The data coming in is named as follows data1, data2, data3, ... data40.
> So I need the php variables to be named in the same way. Whats the
> syntax here? Thanks for any help.

Data coming in from where? GET? POST? Command line? Cookies? Let's
suppose it's POST and you have POST variables named data1, data2, ...
data40. Then it would be something like this:

for($i = 1; $i <= 40; $i++) {
$name = "data$i";
$$name = $_POST[$name];
}

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