Concate variable name.

I am trying to dynamically change the name of a variable to check against it. Is this possible in PHP.

I have previously designated variables $wk1, $wk2, $wk3, $wk4, and $wk5. I need to make it so that I can check if 1=2, 3, 4, 5 or if 2=3,4,5, etc. etc. I am trying to do it in a for loop, something like:

for ($i = 0; $i < 5; $i++) {
if (strcmp($wk1,$wk$i)) {
echo "Match"
}
else if (strcmp($wk2,$wk$i)) {
echo "Match"
}
Etcetera-etcetera
}

PHP:

 

Try this method:

for ($i = 0; $i < 5; $i++) {
$cmp_wk = "wk".$i;
if (strcmp($wk1,$$cmp_wk)) {
echo "Match"
}
else if (strcmp($wk2,$$cmp_wk)) {
echo "Match"
}
Etcetera-etcetera
}

PHP:

 

I actually ended up going a different way. I put the values of each $wkX into an array, and am using $i to get the value of the proper index and comparing against it.

Thanks for your suggestion though, as a quick test shows that would have worked for me also.

 

Arrays are the proper way to do this anyway. You could also use a foreach() loop.

www.php.net/foreach