On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 20:30, lala <lala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've wasted two days trying to find this in the documentation. Google is no > help here either; they only index text. > > While looking at some code using objects I came across this: > > $this->{$spec} > > The example works with or without the curly braces, but I know they aren't > there for just for decoration ;) > > Will somebody be so kind as to point me where in the docs this syntax is > explained? > > tia It's documented here: http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php It works for function and class names as well. -- Daniel Egeberg -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php