Storing field contents in a variable ...

[bobby3000]

Is there anyway that you can get information from a field and instead of it printing out what it says in the field something different?

E.g.

I have a list of variables at the top of a page that change the real field value into a more readable format...

if ($lala = "main") { $main1 = "Main Listings"; }

This works when the variable main is used in the address and prints out the variable where you specify main1

All thats ok I can get that to work ... but here comes the next part that I can't get to work:

I want it to print out 'Main Listings' when it gets a 'main' in the 'lala' field.

This is what I've got so far:

printf("Main: %s</p>\n", $row["lala"]);

Can I get this to print out 'Main Listings' instead of 'main' ?

Any help would be much appreciated ...

Bobby

[yelvington]

I find your question confusing, but I think you're looking for an associative array.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/getit/arrays.php3

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2001/06/21/php_foundations.html