2d-Array $array[name][department]

[Daveyz83]

i need to store name and the departments the person is in in an array like $array[name][department]

Example i have the following arrays

$array[mary][sales]
$array[mary][accounts]
$array[jack][sales]
$array[lancy][accounts]

I would like to list all the departments the name is in, for example all the departments mary is in. How should I go about it?

Thank you in advanced.

[MaTT]

You should see php.net online documententation : arrays and scalars

[rharter]

try

foreach($array['mary'] as $dept) {
echo $dept;
}

[Weedpacket]

Y'know, it might be easier to have

$array[0]['name']='mary';
$array[0]['department']='accounts';
$array[1]['name']='mary';
$array[1]['department']='sales';
...

which could also be written as:

$array = (
  array('name'=>'mary', 'department'=>'accounts'),
  array('name'=>'mary', 'department'=>'sales'),
...
);

Then the search for mary's departments would go:

foreach($array as $person)
{ if($person['name']=='mary') echo $person['department'];
}

And the search for the people in sales would go

foreach($array as $person)
{ if($person['department']=='sales') echo $person['name'];
}