Odd Custom PHP Variables
Creating custom-named PHP variables is pretty easy:
${'username'} = 'User1010'; // same as $username = 'User1010';
But did you know that you can create variables with spaces? The following will work:
${'name of user'} = 'David Walsh';
echo ${'name of user'};
I can't see any reason to do this, but it's possible.
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Reminds me of a templating variable. Could possibly be used in the case of having non-programming html-designers making the pages.
Hopefully someone else knows more about the benifits of this. :)
I’m really not sure, but as I used flash and dynamic variable creation, this somehow looks familiar for me. It makes sence in flash, but I don’t know why I should do this in php. I mean, arrays are better that that, right?
I dunno! Makes me wondering …
lol, thats useful innit? ;)
Great site btw. cheers.