note 11221 rejected from function.array by torben

Note Submitter: atrox@screaming-penguin.com ---- actually it is quite easy to directly reference a value in an array relatively. you simply must reset and sort the array first (see reset and sort) also note that when using dynamically assigned arrays that potentially may have only one element, sort does not re-index the array from zero, so in each case where an array could potentially only have one element you must count the array, if it has one element then re-assign it with an index of zero (to ensure that it is zero after it is processed) if it has more than one element then sort will do the work for you: example: reset($array); sort($array); $count = count($array); if ($count == 1) { $value = current($array); $array = array ("0" => "$value"); } in this manner the array is reset and sorted FIRST and then counted, if the count is 1, then it is rebuilt with an index of 0 (note that sort re-indexes beggining with 0 if the array has multiple elements)