Posted by kevin bailey on 11/24/05 18:18

Nick wrote:

> kevin bailey wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> using pg_fetch_object() to get a row from a recordset.
>>
>> the recordset was extracted from a view on a database.
>>
>> the view has fields in it where the the field name contains spaces 'Base
>> Total' etc.
>>
>> now when i refer to the field using
>>
>> $total_base = "Total Base";
>> $base_total = $row->$total_base;
>>
>> it works ok.
>>
>> but to be neater is there anyway that:
>>
>> $base_total = $row->'Total Base';
>
> Have you tried
>
> $row->{'Total Base'}

have now and it works fine - marvellous!

i presume the curly braces are a way of php defining a sort of place holder
which is similar to how variables are defined at times - like {$varname}

thanks for the help,

kev

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