PHP 4.0 Bug #10264: strange associative array behaviour

From: shane.wright@ecustomeropinions.com Operating system: RedHat 7 PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: Arrays related Bug description: strange associative array behaviour Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I can't find any reference to it in the documentation/user comments/FAQs Basically, if you build an associative(ish) array like this: $period = -24; for ($i=$period; $i<=0; $i++) { $data[$i] = $myvalues[$anotherindex]; }; It works ok, the array contains (in order) elements with the inidices -24 to 0. But, if $period is decreased so that over 25 elements are introduced, the order goes off... basically elements with indices -24 to 0 are fine, but all the other ones come, in order, _after_ index 0. Any ideas? Shane -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=10264&edit=1