RE: [PHP] question from a php newbie

You know, what you can do (strongly not recommended, but still) is to insert that whole thing into a database and then pull this string out and pass it through eval(). ie: eval($record); another way would be to take all that, addslashes($it) and then write into a file with stripslashes($it). But, you are going to need that statement to be a string, not code. Otherwise you can "read yourself", fread() your own file to take your code as a string. After all, those are kinda silly methods. I am sure you can find a better solution for your needs. Storing codes is a very powerful but not always necessary procedure. Cheers, Maxim Maletsky www.PHPbeginner.com -----Original Message----- From: 602e23 [mailto:602e23@email.com] Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 12:26 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] question from a php newbie I'm so new to this, in fact, that I may not be able to even frame my question correctly. Please bear with me. Suppose that I had a list in a data base of, say, countries and that I built an array as $states = array ( array("abbr"=>"MA", "name"=>"Massachusetts"), array("abbr"=>"NY", "name"=>"New York"), array("abbr"=>"CA", "name"=>"California"), [. . .] ) is there a way to dump this array in a form which would allow it to be written to an 'include' file. I tried both var_dump and print_r but neither method seems to have worked correctly. The actual array which I have in mind is much more complicated structurally than the states array shown above, but it is unlikely to change more than once a day so it seems wastefull to probe the database each time a copy is needed. av0- -- 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