print a variable who's name is stored in another var 1

[esromneb]

Is there any other way to do this with out using the ugly eval function?

<?
$text1 = &quot;this is text1&quot;;
$text2 = &quot;welcome to text two&quot;;
$index = 2;

$code = &quot;print(\&quot;\$text$index\&quot;);&quot;;
print(&quot;code = $code<br>\n&quot;);
eval($code);
?>

Thanks,
Ben

 

[sleipnir214]

One way is to use arrays:

$text = array ('this is text1', 'welcome to text two');
$index = 1;
print $text[$index];


Another is to use variable variables (

http://php.he.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php)

<?php
$text1 = &quot;this is text1&quot;;
$text2 = &quot;welcome to text two&quot;;
$index = 2;

print ${'text'.$index};
?>


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