Hi there,
Been looking around the old internet for an answer to this problem for about 3 hours now and I can’t seem to find anything suitable.
Here’s the deal. I want to have a series of arrays that update on click. There are 9 sets of checkboxes, each within a parent div with a unique id. The id name is the same as the array name. When a checkbox is clicked my script checks the parent div’s id, then modifies the correct array. At the moment I’m using a series of switch statements to discern the array from the id, like so:
var sausages = [], mash = [], gravy = []; //etc..
$(':checkbox').click(function){
switch($(this).parent().attr('id')){
case 'sausages':
sausages.push($(this).val());
break;
case 'mash':
mash.push($(this).val());
break;
case 'gravy':
gravy.push($(this).val());
break;
//etc..
}
});
What I want to have is something along the lines of:
$(':checkbox').each(function(){
var $(this).parent().attr('id') = [];
}
$(':checkbox').click(function(){
$(this).parent().attr('id').push($(this).val());
});
I know in PHP you can use the following to a similar effect:
foreach($array as $key => $value){
$$key = $value;
}
Is that possible in javascript or am I being a little optimistic?
Thanks in advance,
Mike