Array question

[vccarvalho]

Hi there! I'm facing a dilema here, I'll try to show what is my scenario and then explain
what I'm trying to do:

I'm parsing a news site which has this structure

02/05/03

18:00 Header1 Font1
17:00 Header1 Font2
16:56 Header1 Font3

02/04/03
.
.
.
.

and it goes. As you can see my news are nested inside a unique time and this
is inside a date. Well I thought I could do something like this:

Create an array with this structure:

$news[$date][Struct][$i]

where $date is the date ("02/05/03","02/04/03")
Struct is the name of the field (time, header, font)
$i is an integer value, for the example above I'd have:

$news["02/05/03"]["time"][0] = "18:00";
$news["02/05/03"]["header"][0] = "Header1";
$news["02/05/03"]["time"][1] = "17:00";
$news["02/05/03"]["header"][1] = "Header2";

$news["02/04/03"]["time"][0] = "18:00";
$news["02/04/03"]["header"][0] = "Header1";

My question is: Is this the correct solution for a problem like this?
How can I create this array assuming I do have all dates in a var?

Thanks

[ednark]

there is no correct solutions, a correct solution is the one you know how to do, and if it doesn't break then it is correct 🙂

hmmm, i'd flip the last two there

$News[$date][$index]['time']
$News[$date][$index]['header']

might make more sense written like this

$news = array(

'02/05/03' => array(
    0 => array( 
        'time'   => '18:00',
        'header' => 'header1' ),
    1 => array( 
        'time'   => '19:00',
        'header' => 'header2' ),
    2 => array( 
        'time'   => '20:00',
        'header' => 'header3' )  ),

'03/01/03' => array(
    0 => array( 
        'time'   => '18:00',
        'header' => 'header1' ),
    1 => array( 
        'time'   => '19:00',
        'header' => 'header2' ),
    2 => array( 
        'time'   => '20:00',
        'header' => 'header3' )  ),
);