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Using braces with dynamic variable names in PHP

May 28, 2022 by IT Nursery

I’m trying to use dynamic variable names (I’m not sure what they’re actually called) But pretty much like this: for($i=0; $i<=2; $i++) { $(“file” . $i) = file($filelist[$i]); } var_dump($file0); The return is null which tells me it’s not working. I have no idea what the syntax or the technique I’m looking for is here, … Read more

Use dynamic variable names in JavaScript

May 8, 2022 by IT Nursery

In PHP you can do amazing/horrendous things like this: $a = 1; $b = 2; $c = 3; $name=”a”; echo $$name; // prints 1 Is there any way of doing something like this with Javascript? E.g. if I have a var name=”the name of the variable”; can I get a reference to the variable with … Read more