EXTREME Newby Array Question

RTMac

I'm embarassed to ask this, but I've just searched 12 pages of the "Newby" section on arrays and didn't find anyone else with this problem so I'll have to just jump in and ask!

Everytime I try to view the contents of a simple, one dimensional array all that gets returned is 'Array'.

I have a text box for user input dumped into an array. So my 'comments' array would typically have stuff like: "I want more info on product A".

When I try to view the contents of my array with:

echo $comments;

I get 'Array'

I KNOW it's an array! I need the CONTENTS of the array!!!
AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!

OhLordy

Use print_r() this is the print readable function
print_r($array);

either that or write a little for loop to go through the array and display each element.
Good Luck
Rob

ir4z0r

for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($array); $i++) echo $array[$i];

kevinsequeira

$array = array( a, b, c, d, e, f);
//method 1
print_r($array)."<BR>";
//method 2
for($i=0;$i<count($array);$i++){
echo $array[$i]."<BR>";
}

reg
kevin

RTMac

Thank you to all you guys! I have three books on PHP and couldn't find the answer. One post to this forum and I have it in half an hour.

You guys rock!

edwardsbc

Man, you guys do this the hard way! Use [man]foreach()[/man], it is much more readable. The $key=> part is optional, leave it out if you don't need the key.

foreach($arrayvar AS $key=>$value) {
   echo $key,': ',$value;
}

dalecosp

Ok, easy way, heh...

var_dump($array);

😃😃😃😃😃😃

Yes, it's been a long day. Sorry for the lame joke. It would work, sort of........

FrozNic

lol