Re: changing a key in an array

Brent -- ..and then Brent Baisley said... % % 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 One never knows, but I currently list as many as he has anyway. % menu. The value passed by the links or pop up would be the element % number of the array item containing the desired basket. OK... Then, of course, I'd have to do name->number mapping so that I can present the surfer with the name that he chose rather than just a number, but that could be done, too. % 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. Makes it trickier :-) % % But it's easy enough to create your own function to search the array. Right. % 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",...); Hmmm... I tried something like this and it got ugly. I could try again, except now it looks like I won't have to. % % You can use sort() to sort the array. Right. % % Hope that helps and sorry about steering you down the difficult path % first. It's quite informative, and I still need a lot of that, and the tough path is no problem :-) Thanks for all of the input! HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!