[thelist] [PHP] Whaddya callit?
Burhan Khalid
thelist at meidomus.com
Tue Jul 12 03:35:49 CDT 2005
Maximillian Schwanekamp wrote:
> This may be a stupid question but... I'm working on an app that I will
> eventually hand off to someone else. I'm striving for good class/method
> commenting, and it occured to me that I don't really know what this is
> commonly called in php-land: a two dimensional array consisting of an
> index array of associative arrays. I call this a recordset array, since
> I cut my teeth on ASP/VBScript. E.g.:
I suppose recordset array is as good a term as any. I would simply call
it a multi-dimentional array (there is no set term for it in PHP).
With your situation, I would give an example of a sample returned array
in the comments, so programmers will know what to expect. Your returned
array is very easy to deal with, so I don't think you'll run into many
problems:
$db_records = doMagic();
if (is_array($db_records))
{
foreach($db_records as $rec)
{
echo $rec['id'];
/* etc */
}
} else {
echo 'Whoops, something went wrong with doMagic()';
}
Hope this helps :)
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