I was recently writing an administrative script for one of the Professors at UDel to enter a bunch of students grades into a MySQL database so they can view their grades on the web. One thing that I found about PHP that was awesome was how easily you can dynamically create variable names. Since the Professor was entering everything on one page, my action page had a loop that pulled in each value. Rather than using an array, I was able to easily create variable names, such as student$id
which was so much easier than perl or Java, where I would have had to use concatentation to create the variable names before actually assigning values to them! Has anyone done anything similar to this before?

You can do this real easy in CF as well, setVariable("myStudent#theID#", value)....

evaluation is very easy as well,

evaluate("form.myStudent#theID#")