Returning an array

[njm]

I have what is probably a very simple problem. I'm trying to get a function to return an array, and assign the returned value to another array.

I have a function check_register() which has a return value which is an array. Within the function I can iterate through the array fine, but when I have the line:

$check = check_register();
foreach ($check as $k => $v) {
...}

$check is not an array, and the code fails on the second line. The following code does work:

foreach(check_register() as $k => $v) {
...}

but I'd like to know the syntax for returning an array and assigning it another array - or if there is just an error in mycode?

Thanks, njm

XP Pro, PHP 4.3.1 (ISAPI) on Apache 2.0.44

[ahundiak]

Really should not have to do anything special to return a copy of an array.

function check_register()
{
  $check = array('01' => 'Check 1', '02' => 'Check 2');
  return $check;
}
$check = check_register();
print_r($check);

[njm]

ahundiak,

Thanks, once I knew the assignment was conceptually OK, the error must lie elsewhere (it was a broken conditional further up the page) - and thanks for the tip on [FONT=courier new]print_r()[/FONT]. I'd not seen that function before (it's not in Welling/Thompson), will be useful for debugging.

Regards, njm