dynamic variable in function dont work

[mjsmitten]

I have a question about using variables inside a function. The first part of code is not working. It appears that the variable '$myvalue' is not being served to the function although when I echo the $myvalue it has the right text.

If I however use normal text, it WORKS!
How to do this dynamically so that the varibale CAN be used?

First code is here and is NOT working!

<?php 
$myregions = array('delaware','florida','colorado');
foreach ($myregions as $myvalue){
osc_query_item(array('region'=>$myvalue));
    if ( osc_has_custom_items() && osc_item_region()==$myvalue) {
        bender_draw_item($class);
    } 
}
?>

Second code is here and IS working!

<?php 
osc_query_item(array('region'=>'Delaware'));
    if ( osc_has_custom_items() && osc_item_region()=='Delaware') {
        bender_draw_item($class);
    } 

    osc_query_item(array('region'=>'Florida'));
    if ( osc_has_custom_items() && osc_item_region()=='Florida')  {
        bender_draw_item($class);
    } 

    osc_query_item(array('region'=>'Colorado'));
    if ( osc_has_custom_items() && osc_item_region()=='Colorado') {
        bender_draw_item($class);
    } 

   ?>

The function is here (I took some of the 'case' out because readability:

function osc_query_item($params = null) {
    $mSearch = Search::newInstance();
    if($params==null) {
        $params = array();
    } else if(is_string($params)){
        $keyvalue = explode("=", $params);
        $params = array($keyvalue[0] => $keyvalue[1]);
    }
    foreach($params as $key => $value) {
        switch($key) {
        case 'region':
            case 'region_name':
                $tmp = explode(",", $value);
                foreach($tmp as $t) {
                    $mSearch->addRegion($t);
                }
                break;

            case 'city':
            case 'city_name':
                $tmp = explode(",", $value);
                foreach($tmp as $t) {
                    $mSearch->addCity($t);
                }
                break;
                }
    }
    View::newInstance()->_exportVariableToView("customItems", $mSearch->doSearch());
}

You tried trimming it. It might have some white space around it. The only other thing I noticed that was different is you have capitals for 'D' delaware but not in the array example...

[IIM]

Both seems same except for capital latters in second example.In second one you are taking first letters as capital but not in previous example.