Posted by MW on 11/20/07 16:08

I take it back - the original syntax as described in the code actually
does work. Sorry!

MW wrote:
> I wanted to know if it was possible to use the "Variable variable"
> syntax to access a public variable inside a class. For example, using
> the code below, I am trying to set the value of variable $var_a in the
> class Cls from outside the code, but want to be able to use the same
> code to assign a value to $var_b. i.e. I don't want the variable's name
> defined in the code.
>
> class Cls {
> public $var_a;
> public $var_b;
> }
>
> $x=new Cls;
> $y="var_a";
> $x->$y="Hello"; // want this to translate to $x->var_a="Hello"
>
> I tried using $x->{$y}="Hello" but that did not work either...

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