Re: Bizarre array key 'feature'?

John Parker writes: > Hi, all. > > Hmm.. bit of a strange one, this... Is 'default' considered a reserved word > in the construction of muti-dimensional arrays? 'default' is a reserved word in PHP, yes: check out the switch statement. If you turn up error_reporting(E_ALL) on the following code, you'll get lots of this: Warning: Use of undefined constant test - assumed 'test' in /home/torben/public_html/phptest/__phplist.html on line 17 Warning: Use of undefined constant a - assumed 'a' in /home/torben/public_html/phptest/__phplist.html on line 17 Warning: Use of undefined constant test - assumed 'test' in /home/torben/public_html/phptest/__phplist.html on line 18 Warning: Use of undefined constant b - assumed 'b' in /home/torben/public_html/phptest/__phplist.html on line 18 Quoting your array subscripts makes this go away, and tells the parser you're using the string 'default' and not the reserved word. > ie: The following code works. > > $ourArray[test][a] = true; > $ourArray[test][b] = false; > ... > > But the following fails (Parse error: parse error, expecting `']'') at the > first line containing the 'default' key. > > $ourArray[default][a] = true; > $ourArray[default][b] = false; > > > Using PHP4.0.2 (yeah, I know I should probably upgrade). > > Thanks in advance, > JP. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > John Parker email: jparker@itchannel.net > Internet Project Manager/Software Engineer web:www.itchannel.net > itCHANNEL International Ltd. tel: +44 (0) 1202 291939 -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+