array

Say you have an array that's just a little messy and you need to apply a function to every value in that array... you probably want http://us2.php.net/array_map and not http://us.php.net/array_walk

To do this:

php turn an array into variables matching keys
php associative array to variables

The function you want is

<?php
 extract($array);
?>

http://us.php.net/extract

You can also do it the hard way.