RE: [PHP] trouble with each() list() and array()

On 19-Nov-00 Christian Dechery wrote: > I come from C, where pointers are everything, including the only way to > store strings. > And to store the form data I just parsed the QUERY_STRING (or post data) > and stored into strings. PHP handles all this for you: http:// ... /my_app.php?var1=foo&var2=bar echo $var1 ."<BR>\n"; echo $var2 ."<BR>\n"; will output: foo bar > And I'm not quite getting these each() array() etc... functions... > I'm not sure what an array is, in C is simple: an array is a pointer to a > type. > How do I store all the form data in a list for example? > like in C you'd have like a struct > struct form > { > char *field; > char *value; > } > > and then with a parser you'd create a list of struct form. > But I'm not sure how that works in PHP. > PHP arrays are closer to Perl-style arrays; there are 2 types, flat & associative (hash) arrays: $xary= array('foo', 'bar', 'baz'); $dary= array('Sun' => 'Sunday', 'Mon' => 'Monday', 'Tue' =>'Tuesday'); echo $xary[1] ."<BR>\n"; echo $dary['Tue'] ."<BR>\n"; while (list($key, $val) =each ($xary)) { printf('%s = %s <BR>', $key, $val); } while (list($key, $val) =each ($dary)) { printf('%s = %s <BR>', $key, $val); } Produces: bar Tuesday 0 = foo 1 = bar 2 = baz Sun = Sunday Mon = Monday Tue = Tuesday knowing C is a fine base into Perl, then from Prel -> PHP; one of the stumbling blocks for me was having to declare globals within functions. Regards, -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- The problem with people who have no vices is that you can be sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.