Posted by Greg Donald on 10/09/78 11:05

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:10:00 -0500 (EST), Bruce Cooper
<coop.ie@excite.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a custom sort for multi-level [i.e. nested] arrays. The problem is I can't seem to get PHP to recognize syntax such as follows
>
> $test=$test_array.'[index][next]';
>
> The above example is greatly simplified. In the real world I'd be dynamically building that string to pin on the end.[i.e. I'd like to be able the drill down to a depth determined from inside a function rather than having to hard-code it] I'm all confused. The same type of syntax works for other variable types....
>
> What am I doing wrong ?


Use eval() on the string after you construct it.

php.net/eval


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Greg Donald
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