Re: Array mysteries

At 9:51 AM +0100 3/11/07, Otto Wyss wrote:

I want to convert weekdays with a simple function like $wdays = array

    (0 => "Sonntag"
    ,1 => "Montag"
    ,2 => "Dienstag"
    ,3 => "Mittwoch"
    ,4 => "Donnerstag"
    ,5 => "Freitag"
    ,6 => "Samstag"

); function convert_from_weekday ($weekday) {

    return $wdays[$weekday];

} but this doesn't work while $wdays[$weekday]; outside of the function works correct. Has anybody an idea where's my mistake? I'd like to use a function so I may return substrings of the weekday.

If the above is your exact code, then the problem is one of scope; move the $wdays declaration inside your convert_from_weekday() function. However, you may want to investigate the formatting functions of date(): http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.date.php Date should return names using the native locale; if you want to return date strings for other locales/languages, use setlocale() - http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php - and strftime() - http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php I think you'll find your work has been at least partially done for you. And, see http://php.he.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php for more information on variable scope. steve -- +--------------- my people are the people of the dessert, ---------------+ | Steve Edberg http://pgfsun.ucdavis.edu/ | | UC Davis Genome Center sbedberg@ucdavis.edu | | Bioinformatics programming/database/sysadmin (530)754-9127 | +---------------- said t e lawrence, picking up his fork ----------------+