RE: [PHP] Trouble with understanding arrays

It looks like your problem is simply in the debug line, where you echo print_r(array_values($TickersCurrent)); You shouldn't call array_values() before print_r(), since array_values generates an indexed array of only the values (quotes), not the keys (tickers), of the supplied array, essentially taking your quotes from your ticker=>quote pairs and replacing the tickers with an index. Just do print_r($TickersCurrent) and you'll get the desired result. Hope that helps, Andy -----Original Message----- From: Christopher J. Crane [mailto:ccrane@inxdesign.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 8:16 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Trouble with understanding arrays I am having problems with arrays. I guess I just don't understand them all that well. I have an simple array of stock tickers. Then for each ticker I go to Yahoo to get their current price and try to push the Name of the ticker and it's value into an associative array(I think). Then I want to sort the array so the the values are in order from highest to lowest, so I can see the highest amount as the first position and the lowest as the last position. Here is my problem; for debuggin purposes I do a print_r(array_values()); and I get the following for output. Array ( [0] => 7.28 [1] => 5.20 [2] => 1.969 [3] => 59.63 [4] => 4.43 ) I am not sure why I am getting this. I guess I expected the numerical positions to be the keys something like: Array ( [ikn] => 7.28 [xrx] => 5.20 [danky] => 1.969 [ibm] => 59.63 [rhat] => 4.43 ) Since I am not getting the results I expected I am not sure if the rest is working correctly because I do not know how to access the first position in the array, or the last. When I get this working, I will be adding 200 tickers and I would like to get the first 5 and the last 5, expecting them to be the highest 5 and the lowest 5 respectively. I hope someone will take the time to halp me. Thank you in advance. Here is the code I am working on: $Tickers = array("ikn", "xrx", "danky", "ibm", "rhat"); $TickersCurrent = array(); foreach($Tickers as $Ticker) { $LookupUrl = "http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=$Ticker&f=l1&e=.txt"; $Current = implode('', file("$LookupUrl")); $Current = rtrim($Current); $TickersCurrent["$Ticker"]=$Current; } // Done for debuggin only print "<pre>\n"; print_r(array_values($TickersCurrent)); print "</pre>\n"; asort ($TickersCurrent); reset ($TickersCurrent); echo "CTC Indice = " . array_sum($TickersCurrent) . "<br>\n"; echo "The highest Stock is $TickersCurrent[0]"; -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php