Re: Arrays

> you can mix indexed arrays and associative arrays together, so I could have > any array like this: > > fruit = array ( > 0 => "apple", > 1 => "orange", > 2 => "pear", > "color" = > "orange", > 'texture" => "bumpy"); > > so, we have 5 elements in this array (0-4), if I wanted to get 'bumpy' and > I knew it was at index 4 I could access it 2 ways: > 1) $texture = $fruit[4]; > 2) $texture = $fruit[texture]; > > so, using > while(list($key, $val) = each($fruit)) > { > the each statement looks at each element of the array, each element > has 2 parts, its index and its value, > the first element has index 0 and value 'apple', the second element > has index 1 and value 'orange', > so, using the above while loop with list and each, you can access it > element, $key becomes 0,1,2,'color','texture' and $val becomes > 'apple', > 'orange', 'pear', 'orange', 'bumpy' during its entire > life-cycle (one at a > time though) > } > > does this make sense, > /Cody > > BTW, if you have any more general PHP questions, please direct them to the > PHP mailing list rather than the database PHP mailing list. Thanks Thanks for all your help :o) I should be able to get it sorted now. Sorry about posting to the wrong group... I got a little confused because I'm using the array as part of a database script, but it's not actually anything to do with databases in itself...