RE: [PHP-GENERAL] Arrays

Hi Dhaval, I am no php genious, but arrays can be very useful when you have a large amount of possibilities based on a value or on a string (hashes)... for example... If you want to output the name of a day of the week in enmglish you can have the following $day = 1; //(Monday) $name_day[0] = "Sunday"; $name_day[1] = "Monday"; $name_day[2] = "Tuesday"; $name_day[3] = "Wednesday"; $name_day[4] = "Thursday"; $name_day[5] = "Firday"; $name_day[6] = "Saturday"; print $name_day[$day]; (This would be the same as writing "print $name_day[1]")... And if you see above $name_day[1] is "Monday"... Hashes can be used for other things and are also very useful... You could have the following for example: to display the word "car" in different languages... $car["english"] = "car"; $car["portuguese"] = "carro"; $car["french"] = "voiture"; print "English: ".$car["english"]."\n"; print "Português: ".$car["portuguese"]."\n"; print "Français: ".$car["french"]."\n"; I hope this helps! Cheers from BRasil, Roy > -----Original Message----- > From: dhaval desai [mailto:dhaval_adams@hotmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 2:02 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-GENERAL] Arrays > > > Hi! > > I am new to Php3... > I am using mysql as the database. > CAn anyone give me an intro to using arrays...and why exactly do we use > arrays. > > > Thanx a lot guys > Dhaval Desai > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at ЭêrÐ]ðBM > 4Øþ1http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >