Create object property name dynamically

[davedpss]

This is on a drupal 6 site.

I need to spin through an array and set content profile properties using the $key followed by [0]['value'] = $value; I keep getting errors and can't figure out how to create the property dynamically. Here is the code:


foreach ($profile_array as $key => $value) {
$profile->$key[0]['value'] = $value;
}


I have tried multiple variations of concatenating $key to [0]['value'] including creating variables and then inserting them in place but nothing is working. Any suggestions on what I can try would be appreciated.

Thanks.
Dave.

[NogDog]

Not sure if this will work (or is what you actually want):

$profile->{$key}[0]['value'] = $value; 

[davedpss]

$profile->{$key}[0]['value'] = $value;

That worked. It was exactly what I was looking for. Not sure why I could not find this in my searches. I'll look up wrapping the var in curly braces.

Thanks.
Dave.

[NogDog]

Not sure where in the manual that is, but in general it's referred to as "complex variable notation", and is used when you need to give a "hint" to the parser as to where a given variable name begins and ends.