NYCPHP Meetup

[Nunez, Eddy]

Not sure of the context of the question but here's my 2 cents...

By showing us these different arrays, I will assume you want to use
the arrays as reference points to the variable names stored as elements.
We could have some fun with this...
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$hasSelectedLetter = 'this letter';
$letter = 'not that but this letter!';

print $x = $arrayListArray[0];
print $x = eval("return \$$x"."[0];");
print $$x; 

print $y = $arrayListArray[3];
print $y = eval("return \$$y"."[1];");
print $$y;

Output:
booleanNonFormVars
hasSelectedLetter
this letter
profileNonFormVarArray
letter
not that but this letter!
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I wish there was something syntactically correct yet intuitive to allow 
us to use something like:
$hasSelectedLetter value ~~  $$($$($$arrayListArray[0])[0])
$letter 		 value ~~  $$($$($$arrayListArray[3])[0])
Looks very PERLsh, iick.  Oh well, the PHP parser would choke on this
instantly.

Hope this turns on a light bulb or two.

-Eddy

 -----Original Message-----
From: Phil Powell [mailto:soazine at erols.com]
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:22 PM
To: talk at lists.nyphp.org; php-general at lists.php.net
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Mind exploded on this one!


$booleanNonFormVars = array('hasSelectedLetter', 'hasEnteredProfile',
'hasSelectedProfile',
                             'hasEditedProfile', 'hasDeletedProfile',
'willDeleteProfile',
                             'willDeletePic');
 $booleanVars = array('profileID', 'showemail', 'showbirthday', 'season',
'profilememberid');
 $profileVarArray = array('firstname', 'lastname', 'city', 'state',
'country', 'favebands',
                          'faveconcert', 'favescandinavia', 'faveviking',
'favemeat',
                          'freetime', 'thingslove', 'thingshate',
'favebibleverse',
                          'changeonething', 'maritalstatus', 'birthday',
'favemovie', 
                          'faveplace', 'favetv', 'imgpath', 'imgext');
 $profileNonFormVarArray = array('profileName', 'letter', 'name');

 $arrayListArray = array('booleanNonFormVars', 'booleanVars',
'profileVarArray', 
                        'profileNonFormVarArray');

Bluntly put, I need to get: 
$hasSelectedLetter
$letter

Etc..

I have absolutely NO idea how to do this, help!

Phil


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