Multi-array problem

mojo

hi,
I'm working with a family tree, boys display blue, girls display red. I have an array element:

$person[5] = array(
"name" => "Mary",
"gender" => "F",
"birthyear" => "1940"
);

Now I'm trying to roll through the family tree and set the font color based on the gender of each person. I'm counting thru the tree with a incrementing variable, $count and I'm trying to test the gender of each person in an IF statement:

IF ( $person[$count]["gender"] == "F" ) {
..... then go set the font red...

the reference $person[$count]["gender"] has valid content, but not in the IF expression. Can someone help me out with syntax??

😕

thanks! mojo

weekender

the only thing i can't think of is that it may be fussy about double or single quotes around gender. Try...

IF ( $person[$count]['gender'] == "F" ) {
..... then go set the font red...

it shouldn't be that picky, but you never know.

kevinsequeira

do u get anything when u

echo $person[$count]["gender"];

reg
kevin

mojo

thanks w/e - nope the quotes work. figured it out. just to make it more confusing, i'm passing the person's position in the family tree as a parameter to a function that returns the proper CSS class for font/bg colors. i had to just declare the array global inside the function

here's a display line:
<div STYLE="position:absolute;top=368;left=80;z-index:10;white-space: nowrap;">
<span class="<?echo colorclass(5)?>"><?echo($person[5]["name"])?></span></div>

here's the colorclass function:
// GET THE COLOR CLASS
//
function colorclass ($slotkey ) {
global $colorclasskey, $code;
$colorclasskey="";
$code = $person[$slotkey]["psex"];
$colorclasskey = "redtextinbox";
if ( $code == "M" ) {
$colorclasskey = "bluetextinbox";
}
return $colorclasskey;
}

thanks

🙂

mojo

oops (can't edit... yet?)

the global line in the function also has the array, $person