On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 14:38, Mike Morton wrote:
> Perhaps I was not that clear on the subject :)
>
> I have the following array:
>
> $SAVEVARS[headerimage]=$_POST[headerimage];
> $SAVEVARS[backgroundimage]=$_POST[backgroundimage];
>
> I want to iterate through it to save to a database config:
>
> Forach($SAVEVARS as $whatever) {
> $query="update table set $whatever=$whatever[$whatever]";
> }
>
> Where the 'set $whatever' would become 'set headerimage' and
> '=$whatever[$whatever]' would become the value that was posted through and
> set on the line above.
>
> The question is the - the assigned string key - is there a way to retrieve
> that in a loop? Foreach, for, while or otherwise?
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Mike Morton
foreach ($SAVEVARS as $key => $value) {
$query = "update table set $key = '$value'";
}
Also, unless you have constants named 'headerimage' and
'backgroundimage', you should quote the array subscripts:
$SAVEVARS['headerimage'] = $_POST['headerimage'];
etc. See the manual for why:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php#language.types.array.donts
Hope this helps,
Torben
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