[Tutor] GoFish

[Erik Price]

On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 05:44  PM, dman wrote:

> This isn't
> to say that eval() is never useful, just that dynamically creating
> variable names is not considered good programming practice.

That makes sense, and I felt guilty doing it -- but the situation 
warranted it.  I was writing server-side PHP code that would generate 
client-side JavaScript code to be echoed to an HTML document.  (This 
gets pretty complicated, because it requires some characters to be 
escaped multiple times [from both JavaScript AND php].)  Since variable 
names cannot be passed directly from PHP to JavaScript (you basically 
have to echo the JavaScript code you want), I had to do it this way.


Erik