Items in an Array

[ollmorris]

I have an array:

$names = array(Bill, Dave, Pete);

and I want to select all the names in the array without doing:

$names[0];
$names[1];
$names[2];

How would I go about doing this and would it work fine in a MySQL query?

Thanks

[simon622]

Don't really understand what you mean, but if you want to assign values to variables this should work;

while($name = each($names))		
{
list($name1, $name2, $name3) = $names;		
}

The variables $name1,2,3 will then contain the associated value from the array.

Hope this is of some help.

[ollmorris]

Well, you know you select elements of an array by doing $ARRAY_NAME[0] etc etc?

Well I want to be able to call $ARRAY_NAME with all the values in it, without individually calling $ARRAY_NAME[1], $ARRAY_NAME[2] etc for all the items in my array!

Thanks for your help

[simon622]

Not 100% sure what you mean, but if your just trying to display all the contents of an array, simply put it into a loop like so;

for ($i =0; $i < count($names) ;$i++){
echo" $names[$i]<br>";
}

Is this what you were after?

[ollmorris]

Ok I will try to explain it:

I have an array:

$names = array(Bill, Dave, Pete);

I want to select EVERYTHING in the $names ARRAY!!!!

For example I want to be able to echo:

BILL DAVE PETE

by just calling $names for example.

Thanks

[wilsonodk]

ollmorris
For example I want to be able to echo:

BILL DAVE PETE

by just calling $names for example.

Then you need to do this

$names = array('BILL','DAVE','PETE');

for ($i=0;$i<count($names);$i++){

echo "$names[$i] ";

} 

Which is what simon622 was telling you

[ollmorris]

I tried that before I came here and it didnt work. However I used sizeof instead of count. I will try it

Thank you