Posted by Rik on 05/17/06 23:06

Alan Little wrote:
> Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
> Ambush Commander of comp.lang.php make plain:
>
>> It looks like in this particular case, $this->$x should be
>> sufficient.
>
> Thanks, but no.
>
>> Otherwise, you may have to split up x into $x_object and $x_name
>> (exploding by -> should be sufficient) and calling
>> $x_object->$x_name. What you currently have, however, cannot be done.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean.
> What I'm trying to do is parse variables
> out of a string and substitute them with the value. $x (in this
> example) would hold the variable name extracted from the string. I'm
> trying to figure out how to get to the value of that variable, from
> there.

That is exactly what it does.
$x = 'string'

$$x = $this->$x;
equals:
$string = $this->string;

$x is the variable name, $variable_name holds the value......

I don't get the problem?

What is the exact reason you're trying to accomplish? Maybe if you elaborate
some more, we get the picture. Why is it this doesn't suffice?

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

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