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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:05 pm    Post subject: tricky little array question Reply with quote

Here's a slightly curly one. In the following code, "hello world" is never printed because array_search returns int 0, and the if tests against 0 or un-initialised.

Code:

$highlight = array();
array_push($highlight, 'name');
if (array_search('name', $highlight) ) {
   echo "hello world";
}


I have to use either of the following methods to make it work

1) Use the is_int method to check if the return is an int, rather than testing against zero

Code:

$highlight = array();
array_push($highlight, 'name');
if (is_int(array_search('name', $highlight)) ) {
   echo "hello world";
}


2) adding a dummy value to the start of my array

Code:

$highlight = array();
array_push($highlight, 'unused');
array_push($highlight, 'name');
if (array_search('name', $highlight)) {
   echo "hello world";
}


3) Is it possible to do something like this? ie specifying the array key with an autoincrementing field. It doesn't seem to work but it might just be that i'm doing it wrong...

Code:

$highlight = array();
$highlightIndex = 1;
array_push($highlight, 'unused');
array_push($highlight, 'name');
if (array_search('name', $highlightIndex++ => $highlight)) {
   echo "hello world";
}


Thoughts anyone?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You would have better luck asking this question in a PHP forum or mailing list.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you know of any helpful forum sites for newbies to php?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The mailing lists are usually a good place to search/discuss.

http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

IIR, there is a discussion currently on the php-internals ML atm concerning something that looks suspiciously like this (array_search behaviour). Why not use in_array() instead? Also, why not use $highlight[] = 'name'; instead of the array_push syntax? Off-topic, so I'll leave it there.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

boots wrote:
IIR, there is a discussion currently on the php-internals ML atm concerning something that looks suspiciously like this (array_search behaviour). Why not use in_array() instead? Also, why not use $highlight[] = 'name'; instead of the array_push syntax? Off-topic, so I'll leave it there.


Well now that I know about them I will! I'm just not used to the syntax and functions of php yet, those will do nicely, thanks Smile
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