Re: getting the "next" element of an associative array

chris for your suggestion to work, the internal array pointer of $array would first have to be set to point to the current element ($index). but how do you do this? this may seem like childs play, but i actually can't find any documented php function for this. it would be something like: array_set_internal_pointer($array, $index); On 12/07/07, Chris <dmagick@gmail.com> wrote:

Olav Mørkrid wrote: let's say we have the following associative array: $array = array( "red" => "ferrari", "yellow" => "volkswagen", "green" => "mercedes", "blue" => "volvo" ); then we have a current index into the array: $index = "yellow"; $current = $array[$index]; now: how do i get the key of the next array element (in this case "green")? $next = ? Funnily enough: $next = next($array); http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.next.php -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/