concatenation of string and int in php

[tolkienarda]

hi all
i have a loop that finds a match then needs to add the counter variable to a preset string.

here is the loop and i am looking for an output along the lines of 'class3' as a string.
$row is the result of a mysql_fetch_row

//assigns classes the the corsponding class number
$i=1;
$classnum="void";
$classs='class';
while ($i<8)
{
	if ($row[i] = $class)
	{
		$classnum=$classs . $i;
		$i=11;
	}
	$i++;
}

thanks
eric

[ronverdonk]

I don't have a clue as to what you are doing or want to achive. You you already assign a number $i to the $classs variable, making its content the original content plus the number.

So what is it you want to do, because you stay in the while loop and you even set $i to 11.

Ronald :cool:

[tolkienarda]

sorry about that the setting of $i to 11 is just to kick me out of the loop because i wsan't sure if the break command i used in c++ would work and the reason that what i wanted to do didn't was burried clear in another page and that loops had more problems that i want to think about the only thing there that is right is what i was asking for help on but i've figured it out after continualy beating my head into the monitor

thanks and sorry
eirc

[ronverdonk]

You can get out of the loop using a break or break 1 statement.
A break 2 would have you also gotten out of the while loop.

break accepts an optional numeric argument which tells it how many nested enclosing structures are to be broken out of.

Anyway you found it. Good luck and see you again.

Ronald :cool: