arrays and variables

Hello to All,
I'm stuck and I need your assistance(if I may).

OK here goes:
$i=1; while ($i <= 5) { echo("$i,"); $mylink=("$i"); $i++; }

Here is the problem. If I echo the $i string, I get 1,2,3,4,5 as a result,
which is exactly what I should get.
BUT... if I assign $mylink to the $i variable and I try echoing $mylink, only the last number of $i is printed. I would like to make it so the assigned variable $mylink will print the same contents as the $i.
Thanks
Regards, Tom...

I'm not sure what you're asking here. Each iteration of the loop reassigns $mylink to the current value of $i so it follows that it would contain the last value of $i in the iteration. Each time you are echoing $i it is only printing the current value followed by a comma. $i NEVER equals 1,2,3,4,5 which is what you seem to imply.

Perhaps this is what you want (BTW, please break your code up into something legible)

$mylink="";
for ($i=1;$i<=5;$i++)
{
$mylink.="$i,";
}
print $mylink;

Rod, thank you for your immediate response.
It worked like a charm...
Regards,
Tom
ps.I will try to make my code
more legible next time.