PHP variable variables

Question

I want to store courseworks marks of n courseworks into n variables, such as cw1 and cw2 etc. Using variable variables how can I come with cw1, cw2 etc.

How can I d

Answer 1

php > for ($i=0; $i<5; $i++)
         { ${"thing{$i}"} = $i; }
php > echo $thing1;
1
php > echo $thing2;
2
php > echo $thing3;
3

Note that we're using the dollar sign around curly braces around a string.