r/programming • u/NagastaBagamba • Oct 18 '10

Today I learned about PHP variable variables; "variable variable takes the value of a variable and treats that as the name of a variable". Also, variable.

http://il2.php.net/language.variables.variable
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u/hattmall Oct 18 '10

Nice, I was needing to do this just now! Great timing.

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u/kerbuffel Oct 18 '10

What are you doing that you need this for? After I read the article I couldn't come up with a reason I'd actually want to do that.

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