Check the manual for sure, but assuming:
$cookie = array("foo" => "bar", "red" => "blue")
once this is done you'll have the following variable defined:
$foo = "bar";
$red = "blue";
I think that's how it works anyway.
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to piece apart someone's code to see exactly what it is they're
> trying to do - This code was written for PHP 3.x, so it's not quite as
> nice as 4 (with $_POST, $_GET, $_SESSION, etc). There's this one part in
> particular that I have no idea what's trying to be done:
>
> if (isset ($cookie)) {
> while (list ($name, $value) = each ($cookie)) {
> $$name = $value;
> }
> }
>
> I'm assuming the $cookie array has cookie info stored in it, and it's
> trying to pull the data out of the array. The 2 parts of this I don't
> really understand are lines 2 and 3, 3 in particular. I'm guessing it's
> assigning $name the index, $value the element - What's really stumping me
> here though is the $$name = $value. What is a variable with $$ in front
> of it signify, and what is this trying to do? Any thoughts on this one?
> Thanks.
>
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