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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing a variable name to be created within a function Post 47189 by oombera on Wednesday 4th of February 2004 01:20:08 PM
Old 02-04-2004
Someone's bound to reply who knows how to do this and negate my answer... Smilie

... but in short I don't know how and can't imagine why you'd want to. Any reason inparticular you're trying to do this? If the first parameter is, for example, a name you're passing to the script, it seems alot easier to me to just script name="$1" and call it a day.
 

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WDDX_SERIALIZE_VARS(3)							 1						    WDDX_SERIALIZE_VARS(3)

wddx_serialize_vars - Serialize variables into a WDDX packet

SYNOPSIS
string wddx_serialize_vars (mixed $var_name, [mixed $...]) DESCRIPTION
Creates a WDDX packet with a structure that contains the serialized representation of the passed variables. PARAMETERS
This function takes a variable number of parameters. o $var_name - Can be either a string naming a variable or an array containing strings naming the variables or another array, etc. o $... - RETURN VALUES
Returns the WDDX packet, or FALSE on error. EXAMPLES
Example #1 wddx_serialize_vars(3) example <?php $a = 1; $b = 5.5; $c = array("blue", "orange", "violet"); $d = "colors"; $clvars = array("c", "d"); echo wddx_serialize_vars("a", "b", $clvars); ?> The above example will output: <wddxPacket version='1.0'><header/><data><struct><var name='a'><number>1</number></var> <var name='b'><number>5.5</number></var><var name='c'><array length='3'> <string>blue</string><string>orange</string><string>violet</string></array></var> <var name='d'><string>colors</string></var></struct></data></wddxPacket> PHP Documentation Group WDDX_SERIALIZE_VARS(3)
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