Increment hash key (not values)

[George Chilumbu]

I am using phpredis and  want to be able to increment my hash key e.g 

key1 username "Joe" title "boss"

key2 username "Mary" title "Real boss"

...

So in phpredis, i did something like the following but does not work as demonstrated above:

<php
define('KEY', 'key'.$counter);
$counter = 0;
while($counter < 0){
    $id = "ID-".$counter;
    $redis->hmset(KEY, array($counter=>$id));
    $counter++;
}
...

The program runs fine with no errors, but is not just working as demonstrated above. So the issue is basically with this line of code:

define('KEY', 'key'.$counter);

I also tried this but same result.

define('KEY', "key".$counter);

Instead, the program is executing this:

HMSET" "key" "0" "ID-0"

HMSET" "key" "1" "ID-1"

HMSET" "key" "2" "ID-2"

...

[Jan-Erik Rediger]

> define('KEY', 'key'.$counter);

This defines you a constant. It is not updated whenever you increment
$counter.
What you actually want to use is a variable.
You should read up on how to do that in PHP.

(This is not an issue with Redis at all, it is just a misuse of your
programming language)

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[George Chilumbu]

Indeed i am not a Php programmer, but a DBA. However, i believe that $counter is a php variable, and its global since it is not inside a function or anything else.

So i am not sure what you mean when you say "what you actually want to use is a variable". Please, provide me with an example?

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