Re: Named pair array from variable

On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:06 -0700, Mikey Knutson wrote: > Is this even possible? I'm building a string, properly formatted, to create > a named pair or associative array. The string is fine, and when I use it > directly to create the array, all is well. When I try to use the var to > create the array, I get an empty array (I think). Huh? > > Here is what I have: > > $myString = "'username' => 'password' , 'mickey' => > 'mouse' , 'donald' => > 'duck'"; > $myArray = array($myString); > print ("array val: $myArray[username]"); // get an empty string here > > > > What you're doing is assigning the string "'username' => 'password' , 'mickey' => 'mouse' , 'donald' => 'duck'" to the first index of the array. What you should be doing is assigning the elements one by one to the array so that they have proper indexes. Thanks Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk