Re: need help w/ unfamiliar syntax

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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

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