Re: How to sort that array?

hmm.. I am not sure if JS is the best sollution for that. I am pretty sure that there is a way with php for that. The basic problem comes down to not be able to sort an array customized. Lets take this array as an example:

$code[language]    = array("1"=> "php", "2"=> "asp");

There must for sure be a way to pull the values out of that array by "first in first out". I am stuck with this, but it seems logical that there is a way around it. Thank you for any help on that problem, Merlin Colin Ross wrote:

What I did in a situation like this (much more complicated though, with nested select boxes in a form) was use a database, and then created a php-created javascript file. The javascript file was buffered, and then cached (saved to a file) with a timestamp... So, I can limit the amount of times the WHOLE SCRIPT is run , say once every 24 hours at most. Also, If i just updated it, I can delete the cached version, and a new one is made. Sure, the script is slow... but page loads are fast becuase (unless its NEEDED) all thats to be processed is a file-read call and such... not (potentially) hundreds of DB queries. If you want I can post an example... let me know. Colin On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:59:23 +0200, Merlin <news.groups@web.de> wrote:

Hi there, I would like to save some db power by putting values into a file which are often used. They basicly populate a select field. So I placed those values into associative arrays:

$code[language]    = array("1"=> "php", "2"=> "asp");

Now I would like to sort those for displaying after my preference, not by lets say alphabet. The easiest thing I could think of, is just to move the entry:

$code[language]    = array("2"=> "asp", "1"=> "php");

But this of course does not work. I would like to be able to place values later on inbetween. So if somebody comes up with a language called ".net" :-) I would like to place it in the middle, but I cant get it to work like that :-( To build the select box I use following code: <select name="education">

    <option value ="0" selected>---</option>

'; ################################################ # build the select field for ($i=1; $i <= count($code[education]); $i++){

    if ($education)
        $isselected = ($i == $education) ? " selected" : ""; // select the

active row

    else
        $isselected = FALSE;
    printf ("<option value =\"%s\"%s>%s</option>\n", $i, $isselected,

$code[education][$i]); }; ################################################ echo' </select> Has anybody an idea which could help me on that? Thank you for any help. Merlin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php