Posted by Andy Hassall on 10/04/06 00:41

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 00:33:26 +0200, "Garry Jones" <garry.jones@morack.se> wrote:

>I need to nest a variable into a variable name. Having problem with syntax
>Simply put
>
>$dtet is "col"
>and $dn can be "blue" or "red"
>
>How do I get the following to work?
>
>$dtet+$dn = $_POST["dtet$dn"];
>
>So that the result is either a variable called '$colblue' with a value of
>'colblue' or a variable called '$colred' with a value of 'colred'

Variable variables:
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php

${$dtet . $dn} = "whatever";

But you may want to consider using associative arrays instead, unless you're
forced to write it like this to interface with existing code.

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