RE: [PHP] Tricky array question

Merlin wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to get continent and country info out of an xml file. > There is a continent element to each country element. > > Now I do have an array with the continent info and one with the > country info. The goal is to be able to output all countries sorted > after continents. So I do have: $results[]->countryContinent > $results[]->countryName > > I tryed to group those values, to do array searches and more, but > somehow it looks like that there must be a way more easy way to do > this. Maybe someone has a good hint how to solve that. > > Thanx for any help, > > merlin I would suggest parsing the XML data such that you have an array of continents, and each element of said array is an array with two elements - the first being the contintent name and the second array containing all countries within that continent. So, after parsing the file you would have: $contintents[0] = array('North America',array('Canada','United States','Mexico')); $contintents[1] = array('South America',array('Ecuador','Chile','Peru','Columbia','Brazil')); etc. etc. HTH. Pablo.