Posted by lwoods on 01/15/06 21:24

That's the structure that I'm looking for.

Thanks.

Larry

"Janwillem Borleffs" <jw@jwscripts.com> wrote in message
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> lwoods wrote:
>> I want to echo the value of key 'a' by indirectly referencing it via
>> the variable $y. The above is NOT correct, I know.
>>
>> How do I indirectly reference a variable in PHP?
>>
>
> The technique is called 'Variable variables' and looks like this:
>
> $x=array('a'=>'ant','b'=>'boat');
> $s='a';
> $y='s'; // Removed the dollar sign
> echo $x[$$y];
>
>
> JW
>
>

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