Array help.... urgent!

Okay ...so I'm really new with arrays, here is my problem:

I'm creating an array like this:

$arr2 = array();
$arr2 = array("2001-03-18" => 3);
$arr2 = array("2001-03-24" => 4);
$arr2 = array("2001-03-30" => 2);

I wanna get the value 2 by just specifying the index "2001-03-30"

I don't want to use the while(list...) format

Any way I can get it directly when the user inputs the index "2001-03-30"

Thanks

are u wanna to do that?

$arr2 = array();
$arr2["2001-03-18"] = 3;
$arr2["2001-03-24"] = 4;
$arr2["2001-03-30"] = 2;

$arr2 = array("2001-03-18" => 3, "2001-03-24" => 4, "2001-03-30" => 2);

Thanks for replying so quickly :-)

Using the second method you gave:
$arr2 = array("2001-03-18" => 3, "2001-03-24" => 4, "2001-03-30" => 2);

how can I form this array in a loop ?..... the dates and its values comes from a query result identifier

Thanks again.

use the 1st method.
try this;

$arr2 = array();
[FOR/WHILE LOOP]{
$date = [GET IT FROM DB];
$value = [GET IT FROM DB];
$arr2[$date] = $value;
}

Thanks Ziong :-)