Hello,

Not that it is particularly important but page 73 states this code :


<?php
$name = array("firstname"=>"Albert", "lastname"=>"Einstein", "age"="124");

echo $name["firstname"];

?>


All I get in response is this in the browser:


 Parse error: parse error, unexpected '=', expecting ')'


Also in reference to the operator => I can't find that mentioned anywhere.

Confused,

Carl

$name = array("firstname"=>"Albert", "lastname"=>"Einstein", "age"=>"124");
You left out a right angle bracket.

The '=>' is a special operator used to associate array indices with their value. It's only used in two places, in the array and foreach constructs.

foreach ($array as $key => $value)
{
   // foreach is used to walk through an array
   // it can create variables for each key and value
   // of each indice.
}

http://www.php.net/array
http://www.php.net/foreach

HTH!

Regards,
Rich

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Thanks alot !

Thats how it was written in the book though, although it's not actually part of the main excercises.