Re: [PHP] foreach loop to set variables

jamest wrote:
> I am passing an array to a class which I want to take the array data and
> create some variables from the array's keys and values.
> 
> So I want to create (in this case 21) new variables that I want to create in
> the foreach but with no success.
> 
> foreach ($formdata as $key => $value) {
> 	echo "$key = $value";
> }
> 
> This echo's all the data how I would expect.  But taking the echo out to
> have:
> 
> foreach ($formdata as $key => $value) {
> 	$key = $value;
> }
> 
> But this doesn't work. The variables aren't set.
> 
> I was thinking that I could set up the variables outside of the function by
> using public $variablename for all the different variables then set the
> variable value using:
> 
> foreach ($formdata as $key => $value) {
> 	$this->key = $value;
> }
> 
> But that didn't work either.

But wait, PHP has a function to do this already.

Wait for it...

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extract()  that's it!!!

-- 
Jim Lucas

    "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
        and some have greatness thrust upon them."

Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
     by William Shakespeare