Re: Help with array

$cpt=0; $rownu =1; while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { $data[$cpt][0] = $rownu; $data[$cpt][1] = $row[0]; $data[$cpt][2] = $row[1]; $data[$cpt][3] = $row[2]; $rownu++; $cpt++; This worked perfectly Fredrik.. thank you jrt "Fredrik De Vibe" <fredrik@devibe.net> wrote in message news:ygrd6lrn8ho.fsf@tva.ifi.uio.no... > john@jrthorne.com (John Thorne) writes: > [ snip ] > > $data[$cpt]= > > > > $rownu.","."\"".$row[0]."\"".",\"".$row[1]."\","."\"".$row[2]."\""; > > This is a string, not an array. > > > Could you go a step farther in the $foo[$i][$j] please > > $data[$cpt][0] = $rownu; > $data[$cpt][1] = $row[0]; > $data[$cpt][2] = $row[1]; > $data[$cpt][3] = $row[2]; > > should do what you want, I guess. > > You can have many dimensions in an array. In your case, you have two. > $foo[][] means that each $foo[] contains another array, where the > elements of the second dimension can be accessed by $foo[$i][$j] ($i > and $j being integers and $foo a 2d array). > > I don't know how many dimensions you can have in PHP, but I think you > can have more than two. A three dimensional one will be an array of > arrays of arrays, accessed with e.g. $foo[$i][$j][$k] ($i, $j and $k > being integers and $foo a 3d array). > > Think of it as an index of books in a library. $foo[$i] contains a 2d > array of the different sections of the library, $foo[$i][j] contains > an array of the book shelves in each section and $foo[$i][$j][$k] is a > book. > > Try to google a bit for multidimensional arrays and get a grip on how > they work. :-) > > > -- > --Fredrik > "Why be a man when you can be a success?" > -- Bertold Brecht