RE: [PHP] Array confusion.

You can do this instead.. $month[] = array("Jan","Feb" ......"Dec"); $m = 3; $real_m = $m-1 echo "Month= $month[$real_m]; //Mar You can also have PHP assign the first element of the array to index 1 instead of 0.. I think you accomplish that by doing something like $month[] = array(1=>Jan,Feb,Mar...); If you need to get the month as $m='03'; you can strip the first zero using any one of the suitable string functions. PS: (i noticed that this doesn't really answer your specific question. But this will work properly for your needs) oktay -----Original Message----- From: Sterling [mailto:smullett@omeninc.com] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 2:46 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Array confusion. H- I'm kinda new to the PHP scene so if the below plea for help is incredibly simple ... well.. What can I say? I'm stuck. I've been on the PHP website for the last hour reading the documentation on arrays and all the functions associated with it but have yet to find a straight forward explaination on how to accomplish this code. Here's what I have: (PHP4) $m = "03"; $list = array(01=>"Jan", 02=>"Feb", 03=>"Mar", 04=>"Apr", 05=>"May", 06=>"Jun", 07=>"Jul", 08=>"Aug", 09=>"Sep\", 10=>"Oct", 11=>"Nov", 12="Dec"); $month = $list[$m]; print "$month\n"; What I want to print is the month in Text format, which in this instance should be Mar . I even tried: $month = array_keys($list, $m); Now I know that $list[x]; references the location of an item so I know why the previous code doesn't work in that respect, since nowhere is 01 a location but an association within the array. Right? I've seen examples on printing every element of an array. Printing every element of a 2d array, poping elements from the beginning and end of an array but not an example of getting a single element from an array. I'm sure I'm doing something backwards and might even be confused on how the array works but don't know what. If any one has any better solutions to this code please feel free to post. Thanks for any assistance anyone can provide. -Sterling -- 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