how to build three dimensional array

[jowatkins]

Hi,

I've used the following example in the past to build an array form within a loop.

$yeararray= array ();
//use the for loop to populate the array with the years
for ($i=0; $i<5; $i++)
{
  $year = $thisyear+$i;
  $yeararray[]=$year;
}

I need to do something similar to build a three dimensional array

$data = array();
$pointer = 0;
foreach ($rankarray as $rank)
{
  foreach ($statusarray as $status)
  {
      $query = "SELECT * FROM HWBugBasic WHERE chassis LIKE '$chassis' AND drrank='$rank' AND status='$status'";
      $result = mysql_query($query);
      if ($result) 
      {
          $total = mysql_num_rows($result);
          $data[] = array ("rank"=>"$rank", "status"=>"$status", "value"=>"$total");
      }
      $pointer++;
  }
}

I know there's something very wrong with the syntax here, but don't have enough programming knowledge to fix it. Can anyone help?

[dar-k]

What do you wish to accomplish here? Something like this?

$data[0]["rank"] = $rank;
$data[0]["status"] = $status;
$data[0]["value"] = $total;
$data[1]["rank"] = $rank;
$data[1]["status"] = $status;
$data[1]["value"] = $total;
$data[2]["rank"] = $rank;
$data[2]["status"] = $status;
$data[2]["value"] = $total;
etc...