Re: changing a key in an array

Unless the user has a lot of baskets, I would assume you would just list all the baskets the user has as links on the web page or as a pop up menu. The value passed by the links or pop up would be the element number of the array item containing the desired basket. To extract a basket by name I would say you could use array_search, but in looking into that function it appears to have changed through recent versions of PHP. In PHP 4.1 it doesn't search multi-dimensional arrays, I'm not sure about in 4.2. But it's easy enough to create your own function to search the array. And you are right, the setup I recommended can get a bit kludgy. But if you "denormalize" the array structure it can get easy again. Just make the first element for each basket the name of basket. $baskets[] = array("basketname1","item1","item2"); $baskets[] = array("basketname2","item1","item2","item3"); $baskets[] = array("basketname3","item1","item2",...); You can use sort() to sort the array. Hope that helps and sorry about steering you down the difficult path first. On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 09:05 AM, David T-G wrote:

Given the array you present above, how would you extract a basket by name? The closest I can come is to go and find the name and then increment the ID by 1 and then get out that basket, which sounds like a *huge* mess... --

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