Mark Hensler — Sat, 16 Aug 2003 04:37:22 +0000

<?php
$this_week = 1;
include \"/home/account/public_html/person1.php\"; print ${'variable_week'.$this_week};
include \"/home/account/public_html/person2.php\"; print ${'variable_week'.$this_week};
include \"/home/account/public_html/person3.php\"; print ${'variable_week'.$this_week};
?>

or probably even better

<?php
for ($i=1; $i<=30; $i++) {
    include \"/home/account/public_html/person$i.php\";
    print $variable_week1;
}
?>

fifeclub — Sat, 16 Aug 2003 04:26:53 +0000

Thanks. Works fine because it's reasonably small amount of data. I have one follow up question.

I've got 30 lines that I need to change each week. This is the way each looks. The file which contains the variable (person#.php) will remain but the variable I desire to print from that file will keep changing. It will become $variable_week2 and so forth

<?php
 include \"/home/account/public_html/person1.php\"; print $variable_week1;  
 include \"/home/account/public_html/person2.php\"; print $variable_week1;  
 include \"/home/account/public_html/person3.php\"; print $variable_week1;  
?>

Easy enough to alter each one but trying to be as lazy as I can, I thought it would be even better if I could change just one variable for the week and automatically change the variable for each of the 30 lines at once. But I don't know how to use a variable within a variable.

It doesn't work but I was trying $this_week ="1"; and then trying to get $this_week into where the number 1 currently is in the code from above, following $variable_week in each line. Is this even possible?

Suzanne — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 19:39:53 +0000

Depending on what you're doing, Mike, this may not be a good way to go about it. Having text in .txt files that you then conditionally include on a page may work, however?

Also, if the information in the values is small, you could instead just have one file with all the values (and unique variable names) and require it.

fifeclub — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:14:00 +0000

Cool. Thanks.

Mark Hensler — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:05:40 +0000

<?php
// file1.php
$value = \"this is file one.\";
?>

<?php
// index.php
include(\"file1.php\");
echo $value; // this is file one.
?>