Posted by Geoff Berrow on 01/11/07 16:54

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ZeldorBlat contained the following:

>> 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];
>}
Or you could use extract

extract($_POST);

Or you could just use the array elements directly

echo $_POST['data1'];
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