Re: Passing objects as a reference and extracting the index of an associative array.

Webmaster wrote:

Hi, i am using the smarty template engine. Here is the problem that I would like to ask about: function initTop(&$page, $array) { for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($array) {

      $page->assignVars(, $array[$i])

} } The function is supposed to know which object's attributes she is supposed to change. Do I have to pass the object as a reference? Have never worked with References before. The array is supposed to be associative. The funcion assignVars() is called like this: $objektname->assignVars("indexname of ass. array", $arraywert); How do I get the indexname for each arrrayvalue, so I can pass it to the function assignVars?

There is no "assignVars" method within Smarty. Are you using something else overtop of it? You can assign the whole array to Smarty like this: $smarty->assign('some_name',$some_array); Then, say you have $some_array['one'] = "Bob", you'd use a placeholder like {$some_name.one} to get the value "Bob" in your template. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals – www.phparch.com