How to add to Array??

Anon

I know this must be a remeidal questin but am stumped. I want to add elements to an array as the links are clicked so that i can add to or subtract from the array on the fly and then display it.

I am having difficulty visualizing how this could be done. please take a look at this snippet and give me a clue. Thanks from wisconsin.

<? $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM col_agttype ORDER by at_desc");
while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$at_id = $myrow["at_id"];
$at_desc = $myrow["at_desc"];
$arrayagttype[$at_id] = $at_desc;
echo "<a href=\"$php_self?uidx=$uidx&aidx=$at_id\">$at_desc</a> ";
}
?>
</td>
<td width=30%>
<?
// load the array
$i=$aidx;
$arrayselectionagttype[$i]="$arrayagttype[$aidx]";

// show the array
echo $arrayagttype[$aidx];

rrijnders

Your method of adding values to the array is fine, but I think you are unclear on the concept of server side scripting.

Each time one of the links is clicked, your page is called all over again, from scratch. This means that your $arrayselectionagttype[] array is empty every time! At most, you will never have more than the last item clicked in that array.

If you want to have that array persistant from one page execution to the next, you will have to store it in a db and use sessions, or serialize it and store it in a cookie on the visitors machine so it is available with all its accumulated values each time the page is called.

HTH
-- Rich

Anon

seriously thanks for the help. Ill mak an extra file and hold the array in there. In the back of my mind I new that to be the case (that server side resets) but I was determined thered be a programming way. thanks.