Help creating Array

Anon

I posted the other day about the same problem, and here I am again and maybe this time I'll get a response.

I have created two sets of arrays ($fields,$values);

$fields are the field names of my table. The Values are the values under each field.

I am trying to create a string out of field and assign it the value.

$$field = array($a=>$values[$i]);

$$field creates a string name, and because there are multiple values for the string, I am trying to create an array that can be called later as such.

$category[3] or $cat_id[3]. Which are the two fields in this instance.

As I mentioned before I can set these strings in a single value session. It's creating the arrays that it's having trouble with.

The array is only holding the final value of each field.

Maybe one of you clever guys or gals can point me in the right direction.

Ron

herve

I'm not sure it's exactly what you look for
but extract from the PHP manual :

$fruits = array (
"fruits" => array ( "a" => "orange"
, "b" => "banana"
, "c" => "apple"
)
, "numbers" => array ( 1
, 2
, 3
, 4
, 5
, 6
)
, "holes" => array ( "first"
, 5 => "second"
, "third"
)
);

Anon

Herve, this is more of the script I wrote to create the associative array.

list($fields,$values) = pull_data($table,$conditions,$fields);
$i=0;
$a=0;
while($values[$i]){
$f=0;
while($field = $fields[$f]){
$$field = array($a=>$values[$i]);
$f++; $i++;
}
$a++;
}

In this case the $field array = ("cat_id","category"). The $value array = the 13 corresponding id# and category names.

My goal is to create array $cat_id and array $category.

It seems a bit meaningless with such a small table. But would be extremely time saving for larger tables and also saves repetition.

I fudged it a bit, and got it to produce a comma delimited list which I then explode into the proper arrays. I'd prefer though to eleminate that step and just create the appropriate arrays.

Thanks for you help