Re: sorting array

The way you describe it, you're not sorting anything. This is a basic search/replace algorithm. Try nesting your basic if() statement inside a for() loop. Something like the below. $arraySize = count( $league ); for ( $i=0; i<$arraySize; i++ ) { if ( $league[i] == $cols['league'] ) $league[i] = i; } Your description was a bit confusing, so my code above might have some screwy variable names, but you should get the idea. Check out the PHP Array functions reference for more info. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php Edward Dudlik Becoming Digital www.becomingdigital.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Earl" <earl@caribsports.com> To: "PHP-DB" <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, 16 May, 2003 16:06 Subject: [PHP-DB] sorting array hey guys, I need a little assistance here. I've got an array like the one below ========================================== $league = array("NFL"=>1,"NCAAF"=>2,"NBA"=>3,"NCAAB"=>4,"C_BASE"=>6,"NHL"=>7,"WNDA"=>8,"WC S"=>9,"BOX"=>10,"PGA"=>11,"TENNIS"=>12,"ARENA"=>13, "NASCAR"=>14,"CH_HOC"=>15,"NFE"=>16,"NCAAW"=>17,"CFL"=>18); ========================================== what i am doing is querying a db and would like to replace the value with that from the array. eg.( $cols['league'] has the value of (NFE) i would like to sort through the array to replace (NFE) with the corresponding value which is (16) i can do this using the [ if , elseif, else ] but that would have my code to long. i am only looking for the shortest way out. Thanks in advance for any assistance.