combining variables

[mtd]

Is there a way to define one variable's value as the names (not values) of two other variables?

i.e.
$var1 = 'ONE';
$var2 = 'TWO';

New variable ($var3) needs to be named '$var1var2'. A simple combo like:

$var3 = $var1.$var2;

works with the values of $var1 and $var2, yielding "ONETWO". So that doesn't work.

Maybe this is really easy? really hard? against the nature of PHP? I figured there's got to be a way!

[mattyod]

Hmm maybe I'm missing the point of your question but simply.

$var3 = '$var1'.'$var2';

will return the value you want i.e $var1$var2 but you are just passing in a string not doing anything dynamic. So this would work too:

$var3 = '$var1$var2';

Maybe I'm missing the point but I don't see why you are giving variables to $var1 & $var2 in order to declare another variable based on thier names. By which I mean that

<?php
$var1 = 'ONE';
$var2 = 'TWO';
$var3 = '$var1$var2';

echo $var3;
?>

will return the same as:

<?php
$var3 = '$var1$var2';

echo $var3;
?>

[mrruben5]

Shouldn't the dollar signs be escaped?

PHP Code:

$var1 = 'ONE';
$var2 = 'TWO';
$var3 = '\$var1\$var2'; 


[delinear]

Only with double quotes - single quotes as used will treat the $ purely as a part of the string, it shouldn't try to parse.

[mrruben5]

So that's why my \n line breaks don't work with single quotes huh

[delinear]

Yep I had that problem a lot when I first started out, wondering why I had \n's all over everything. The answer is always a lot more simple than you'd expect