Try this:
var data = {};
data[obj.name] = value;
You can read some more about js objects Here.
Question
In PHP I can mess around with variable variables and I'm wondering if I can do the same in JavaScript.
I want to create a new object with a property which's name is based on the value of a variable.
if ( obj.name === 'foo' ) {
var data = { foo: value };
}
if ( obj.name === 'bar' ) {
var data = { bar: value };
}
Is there a shorter way of doing this without using eval()
? Something like:
var data = { obj.name: value };
Solution
OTHER TIPS
Objects in JavaScript are simply hash maps. You can access members by indexing with their names. For your problem you can use
var data = {};
data[obj.name] = value;
I've used this to implement a dynamic dispatch mechanism for arithmetic operations on different numerical types as described here.