[thelist] Php array, best way to...

[jsWalter]

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> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Diane Soini
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:48 PM
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> On Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at 01:48 AM, 
>
> This will probably be a silly answer because I'm not a programmer and 
> certainly not a PHP expert, but here goes...
> 
> I'm thinking about how the original array of records could be 
> constructed to allow you to get out what you are looking for down the 
> line.
> 
> As a visual thinker I imagine an HTML table.

I'm visualizing it as a grid

Rows and columns.

Even though its not really.


> Imagining (kind of translating it in my visual mind) it in 
> javascript, I would probably make my array of arrays an array
> of Objects (yeah, an array is an Object...I know).

   $cvsRecords = <master array>
   $_colNum    = <what column of data to get>
   $_results   = array(); // drop results here

   for ($i = 0; $i < $recordCount; $i++)
      $_results[] = $cvsRecords[$i][$_colNum];


> Don't know if this is anywhere near to being of any use, and it 
> probably isn't if I was able to think it up. Plus I don't know
> if PHP will behave similarly. I imagine that it might.

Close enough for government work. ;)

If you know JS pretty good, you can pickup PHP with no problem.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Walter