Re: stat/fstat

Zeev Suraski wrote: > > At 18:21 11/5/2001, Brian Foddy wrote: > >derick@php.net wrote: > > > > > > On 11 May 2001, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: > > > > > > > Why not have both numerical and descriptive indices? Backwards > > > > compatible, slightly bloatish, but not really a problem. > > > > > > it's already implemented this way now (it was added last night) AFAIK > > > > > > Derick Rethans > > > > > > >You are creating the same array indexed both by a > >integer and a string? I'm curious how this is done. I might > >have a good use for this trick. > > No special tricks needed; PHP's arrays support both numeric and string > indices ever since PHP 3.0 (at least). You can simply add both types of > indices to the same array without having to do anything special. > Thanks everyone, I knew arrays could be one or the other, but never considered the same value with multiple indexes. I have a perfect use for this, where an array I build, the values have a int index value, and a string an equiv string name. I'm already doing the zend_hash_update and index_update functions anyway, so this should be pretty easy. Question, what will zend_hash_get_current_key return if it gets input like this? Brian