Hello,

I'd like to know if there is a PHP equivalent of the ASP 'Dictionary Object'

Could someone help me with that?

Regards

HammR

Dictionaries in ASP are (iirc) just regular PHP arrays -- that is, a container which provides a mapping between a key and a value. In PHP, arrays can have any number of keys of either string or numeric types.

What exactly are you trying to do? If you post a small ASP code example, I can probably give you the PHP equivalent. That should be good enough for you to start playing with.


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Hi,

I've used the dictionary object to get data from the database and use this in the pages. this example is used when i want to be able to change a color of a menu.

In ASP:

<% Set objRS = Ccart.Execute("SELECT * FROM Colors")
dim dictColor
set dictColor = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
While not objRS.EOF
dictColor.Add ""&objRS("ColorID")&"", ""&objRS("Color")&""
objRS.Movenext
Wend
End if
%>

In PHP:

$query_Colorset = "SELECT * FROM colors order by ColorID";
$Colorset = mysql_query($query_Colorset, $ccart) or die(mysql_error());
$row_Colorset = mysql_fetch_assoc($Colorset);
$totalRows_Colorset = mysql_num_rows($Colorset);

do {

$DictColor[$row_Colorset['ColorID'];] = $row_Colorset['Color'];
}
while ($row_Colorset = mysql_fetch_assoc($Colorset));

---

somethings wrong with the line
$DictColor[$row_Colorset['ColorID'];] = $row_Colorset['Color'];

can't figure out what

Regards

HammR

It might be the first semicolon?
-just a thought...

YES! that did the job.

Thanks

Yes. In PHP, statements are separated by semicolons, so that stray ; in the middle of your statement terminated it abruptly, when the PHP parser was expecting a closing square bracket (]) or perhaps a concatenation operation (.)

I'll bet that you got a parse error saying something to that effect.

Still, I'm glad to hear it's working!


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/