note 58189 added to language.types.array
| From: | thomasfauskanger at gmail dot com | Date: | Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:27:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 58189 added to language.types.array | ||
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I kept getting this error message:
«Cannot use a scalar value as an array in /var/www/html/page.php»
My problem was that I had an array
$foo[$x] = "something";
and further down the script I had forgotten the "[$x].", meaning I just wrote
$foo = "something else";
(Where it of course should be «$foo[$x] = "something else";»)
The loop was hundreds of lines long, so I spent hours trying to figure out what was wrong. So if you
get the same error, check if you have remembered the keys at all the arrays... :)
Hope this may help just one person...
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