Arrays and variable variables

Hi

I've not been doing php for very long, and have a problem referencing the content of arrays using variable variables. To explain using code:

If I have an example masterarray like this:

$masterArray = array("thing","thang","thong");

and three arrays containing the actual data:

$thingArray = array("thing00","thing01","thing02","thing03","thing04","thing05");
$thangArray = array("thang00","thang01","thang02","thang03","thang04","thang05");
$thongArray = array("thong00","thong01","thong02","thong03","thong04","thong05");

My data is stored in an mysql base, each of these items reference a cell, but that isn't important.
For now, let's say that $thangArray["thang03"] = "stuff";.

Now I want to present or store or get these data using a loop. I've tried a whole lot of different ways to do this, and my code currently looks like this:

$numMasterArray = count($masterArray); // as the master array will be expanded over time and I want to change as little code as possible when I do.

for($counter=0; $counter < $numMasterArray; $counter++)
  { for($counter2=0; $counter2 < 6; $counter2++)
      { $test = $masterArray[$counter] . "Array";
        echo $$test[$masterArray[$counter] . str_pad($counter2, 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT)];
      }
   }


I've tried about a fifty different ways to get the echo sentence to display the contents of the "sub"-arrays, but either I suddenly reference $thang00, $thang01 and so on, or I just get thang00, thang01 and so on as text. How can I code this so I get the actual contents of $thangArray["thang00"] etc?

Hopefully I've explained this so you can understand what my problem is.Start Free Trial