1000 points to the first person ....

mstringham

who can tell me why when I use explode with the following I can't create an array

Anyone see what I'm missing here?

$hours = array('8-9','9-10','10-11','11-12','12-1p','1-2p','2-3p','3-4p','4-5p','5-6p','6-7p','7-8p','8-9p');

for($i=0; $i<count($hours); $i++) {
$times = "*$hours[$i]";
echo "$times";
}

This will produce a bulleted list string with everything in the array

But when I explode the string - like so:

$findtimes = explode('*', $times); and loop through it - I only get the last element of the string - "8-9p"

should I not get the same array as above but w/o bullets ?

any help is appreciated - driving me nuts.

here's more complete code ///

<?
$start_time ="10:00AM";
$end_time ="1:00PM";

if($start_time =="10:00AM"){
$begin = 2;
}
if($end_time =="1:00PM"){
$end = 5;
}
?>
<?

$hours = array('8-9','9-10','10-11','11-12','12-1p','1-2p','2-3p','3-4p','4-5p','5-6p','6-7p','7-8p','8-9p');
for($i=$begin; $i<$end; $i++) {
$times = "*$hours[$i]";
echo "$times";

}

<?
$findtimes = explode('*',$times);
if(in_array('10-11',$findtimes)) {
$eight = '1';
}else{
$eight ='0';
}
?>

Any help is appreciated.

sijis

i believe this line of your code will still work even if you don't explode() it.

// remove: $findtimes = explode('*',$times);
if(in_array('10-11',$times))

HTH

sijis

jerdo

You are only getting the last thing because you are adding items to $times incorrectly for what you are attempting to do use this line:

$times .= "*$hours[$i]";

The dot in front of the equal will add the right side to what is currently in $times.

milind24

check follwoing code where u r doing wrong

$hours = array('8-9','9-10','10-11','11-12','12-1p','1-2p','2-3p','3-4p','4-5p','5-6p','6-7p','7-8p','8-9p'); 
for($i=$begin; $i<$end; $i++) { 
// $times = "*$hours[$i]"; here u doing wrong not concating
$times .= "*$hours[$i]"; 
echo "$times"; 
}

you are not contactinating times variable in every loop so at end it have only last value

jerdo

Already posted that

mstringham

It looks like the concatination solved the problem- but my question is why?

How does concatination solve the problem where simply adding a delimeter to each element found in the array does not?

Thanks again for your help.

jerdo

Because the way you were setting $times before wasn't adding information to the variable it was overwriting the variable each time through the loop.