Re: PHP Bug? Problems with arrays

Ivan --- A for loop that begins like this for ($j=0; $j <= 7; $j++) { ... will go through 8 iterations. On the first iteration $j is 0, and on the final one $j is 7. If you want only 7 iterations, then you either need to start with $j = 1, or else use a less-than test rather than less-than-or-equal. --tim On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:26:55 GMT, Ivan Quintero wrote: > I am a PHP newbie (coming for about a year of PERL development). I wrote > this function to determine the rows and values that go into an UPDATE sql > statement. > > Going straight to the point, the problem I am having is that the last "for" > loop iterates one more time that is supposed to. The value for > $total_columns is 7, but as you can see the array that it is populating has > 8 elements. > > Here is the code snippet. I have to apoligize in advance if this is some > sort of obvious logical mistake on my part. It is rather late and I quit > drinking coffee long time ago :). > > ### Begin code #### > <? > #initialize array with list of columns > $column_list = array ("FirstName", "LastName", "MiddleName", > "Birthday", > "Nationality", "Client", "CountryBirth", > "MarineID"); > > #values for variables > $firstname="lolo"; > $lastname= "lala"; > $middlename=""; > $birthday="1974-02-02"; > $nationality="martian"; > $client="1"; > $marineid="23423"; > $countrybirth="mars"; > > > #initialize array with list of values > $arguments = array ($firstname, $lastname, $middlename, $birthday, > $nationality, $client, $countrybirth, $marineid); > > $total_items = count ($column_list); # get the total number of columns > > for ($i=0; $i <= $total_items; $i++) > { > > if ($arguments[$i]) #check to see if there is a value for the column > { > > #Determine the type of data in array $values to decided > #whether to use quotes or not. > > $values[$i] = "'". $arguments[$i]. "'"; #add to the list of > values > > $columns[$i] = $column_list[$i];#add to the list of columns > > } > > } > > > $total_columns = count($columns); > > for ($j=0; $j <= $total_columns; $j++) > { > $set_statement[$j] = "$columns[$j]=$values[$j]"; > echo $set_statement[$j] . "<p>"; > > } > echo $total_columns; > exit; > ?> > > ### End of code #### > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.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 > _______________________________________________________ Tired of slow Internet? Get @Home Broadband Internet http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html