Exploding an array, kind of ...

[mark]

I have an array as follows

$sounds = array();

$sounds['sound1'] = "fishes/1/sound.php";
$sounds['sound2'] = "fishes/2/sound.php";
$sounds['sound3'] = "fishes/3/sound.php";
$sounds['sound4] = "fishes/4/sound.php";
$sounds['sound5] = "fishes/5/sound.php";
$sounds['sound11] = "bears/1/sound.php";

etc etc......

What I want to be able to do have turn the above into this:

include ("sounds/fishes/1/sound.php");
include ("sounds/fishes/2/sound.php");
print ("<br>divider<br>");
include ("sounds/fishes/3/sound.php");
include ("sounds/fishes/4/sound.php");
print ("<br>divider<br>");
include ("sounds/fishes/5/sound.php");
include ("sounds/birds/1/sound.php");

etc etc

I'm totally clueless as to how I might acheive it, especially including the
"dividers" every two includes. Surely one of you clever folk gotta be able
to spoon feed it to me? ;)

[Jeffrey Silverman]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:46:55 +0000, mark wrote:

I'm totally clueless as to how I might acheive it, especially including the
"dividers" every two includes. Surely one of you clever folk gotta be able
to spoon feed it to me? ;)

no spoon feeding until you try harder. Some pointers, though:

Use

foreach($sounds as $key => $value){
}

and

the modulus operator (%) to determine if two rows have passed.
later....
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[mark]

"Jeffrey Silverman" <je*****@jhu.edu> wrote in message
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no spoon feeding until you try harder. Some pointers, though:

Use

foreach($sounds as $key => $value){
}

and

the modulus operator (%) to determine if two rows have passed.

thanks for the reply, but honestly I'm useless at PHP, any chance you could
tell me the answer really? pretty please?

[Jay Moore]

mark wrote:

"Jeffrey Silverman" <je*****@jhu.edu> wrote in message
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no spoon feeding until you try harder. Some pointers, though:

Use

foreach($sounds as $key => $value){
}

and

the modulus operator (%) to determine if two rows have passed.

thanks for the reply, but honestly I'm useless at PHP, any chance you could
tell me the answer really? pretty please?

You're not gonna get any better at PHP if everyone does all the work for
you. ;)

The foreach() will loop thru your $sounds array and pull the key/value
pairs and assign them to $key and $value. Then it's up to you to do
whatever you want with the two variables.

For the modulus (remainder of division), you could use a counter and
check if the counter is evenly divisible by 2 ($ctr % 2). If it is,
output your image/text/hr whatever. If not, continue the loop.

-Jay

[mark]

"Jay Moore" <ad*****@isp.tld> wrote in message
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mark wrote: You're not gonna get any better at PHP if everyone does all the work for
you. ;)

The foreach() will loop thru your $sounds array and pull the key/value
pairs and assign them to $key and $value. Then it's up to you to do
whatever you want with the two variables.

For the modulus (remainder of division), you could use a counter and
check if the counter is evenly divisible by 2 ($ctr % 2). If it is,
output your image/text/hr whatever. If not, continue the loop.

Excellent! I got it now and it works :) many thanks....

You don't happen to know how I can have the array come out upside down do
you too? pretty pretty please?

[Pedro Graca]

mark wrote (edited):

How can I have the array come out upside down?

http://www.php.net/array_reverse

Also look at all the other array functions. They're wonderful :)
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[mark]

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mark wrote (edited):

How can I have the array come out upside down?

http://www.php.net/array_reverse

Also look at all the other array functions. They're wonderful :)

thanks, If i try array_rand or revervse I get:

Warning: Wrong parameter count for array_rand on line 3:

:/

[Jay Moore]

mark wrote:

"Jay Moore" <ad*****@isp.tld> wrote in message
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mark wrote:

You're not gonna get any better at PHP if everyone does all the work for
you. ;)

The foreach() will loop thru your $sounds array and pull the key/value
pairs and assign them to $key and $value. Then it's up to you to do
whatever you want with the two variables.

For the modulus (remainder of division), you could use a counter and
check if the counter is evenly divisible by 2 ($ctr % 2). If it is,
output your image/text/hr whatever. If not, continue the loop.

Excellent! I got it now and it works :) many thanks....

You don't happen to know how I can have the array come out upside down do
you too? pretty pretty please?

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.arsort.php
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.krsort.php

[Pedro Graca]

mark wrote:

thanks, If i try array_rand or revervse I get:

Warning: Wrong parameter count for array_rand on line 3:

Post your code here. For me, both functions work as specified in the
manual.

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[mark]

"Jay Moore" <ad*****@isp.tld> wrote in message
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http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.krsort.php

that works, although I have some problems because my array values are like
this 1, 11, 111 instead of 001, 011, 111