PHP：将Array值转换为变量

Question

I´m making a form, and I want to change the value of the POST into a variable. But I'm doing it wrong somehow.

Check the sample:

$_POST['name'] = $name;
$_POST['age'] = $age;
$_POST['country'] = $country;

This error pops: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE on the first $_POST

Answer 1

While everyone else is entirely correct to point that you shouldn't be assigning values to the $_POST superglobal, it is possible for you to make such an assignment. The $_POST superglobal is just an array, after all, and so it acts like one.

The error you're seeing is because PHP is recognizing $_POST['name'] as being part of the previous statement. Check to make sure that you have properly ended the previous statement (i.e. the line before $_POST['name'] = $name ends with a ;).

You probably do want to be assigning $_POST['name'] to a variable, rather than the other way around as you have it now, but that's not what's causing the error.