Referencing Variables $$

[razormedia]

I haven't posted here before but I am completely stuck.

 

I've checked everywhere and cannot find answer to this question.

 

I have an array and if I were to do this:

 

echo $partNames[$jjk];

 

it would return another part of an array as such:

 

$decoded[0]["Parts"][3]["BodyPart"]

 

(if I retrieve type, this is a string).

 

Now, I need to return the actual value from particular array reference and I cannot for the life of me do it and its destroying my will to live. i've tried combinations of:

 

 

echo $partNames[$jjk];

 

echo $$partNames[$jjk];

 

echo ${$partNames[$jjk]};

 

echo ${$partNames}[$jjk];

 

$sssttt = substr($partNames[$jjk], 1);

echo $sssttt.' - '.${$sssttt};

 

Yet nothing seems to work.

Solution is to rewrite whole script but this is now pretty complicated parser and I do not want to rewrite sections as deadlines are looming.

 

Any help would be appreciated. (I'm new but i'll try to help others now in anticipation of help).

 

Cheers

[razormedia]

Please don't make me rewrite it.

I assume the answer is staring me in the face but I cannot see it.

[salathe]

I assume the question is staring me in the face but I cannot see it.

 

What exactly is contained in the variables $jjk, $partNames and $decoded?

[razormedia]

apologies salathe, let me try to clarify:

 

$partNames is an array

$jjk is just numeric (used in for loop)

$decoded is an array

 

so for example, $partnames is an array of strings which I want as references to another array; ie:

 

$partNames[0] = "$decoded[0]["Parts"][3]["BodyPart"]";

 

its how to use this string as a reference to the particular value held in

$decoded[0]["Parts"][3]["BodyPart"]

 

thats the question.

 

make sense or still confusing?

 

[razormedia]

initially I would have thought:

 

$$partnames[0] would give me the value of the decoded array but it doesn't seem to work.

 

[Buddski]

eval()

[Muddy_Funster]

wouldn't it make more senese to change $partNames to a multidimensional array?

[razormedia]

eval won't work with arrays as I'm also using []

 

therefore

 

eval($partNames[$jjk]

 

will never work.

 

multidimensional array - possibly I may need to rewrite parts of this to store values rather than whole array references in mda).