arrays explanation

[w3it]

Hi
I am fairly new to PHP and wondered if someone could spare the time to explain what is the difference in the following two arrays:

$kits_statuses = array();

$kits_status_array = array();

$kits_status_query = tep_db_query("select kits_status_id, kits_status_name from " . TABLE_KITS_STATUS . " where language_id = '" . $languages_id . "'");

while ($kits_status = tep_db_fetch_array($kits_status_query)) {

$kits_statuses[] = array('id' => $kits_status['kits_status_id'], 'text' => $kits_status['kits_status_name']);

$kits_status_array[$kits_status['kits_status_id']] = $kits_status['kits_status_name'];

}

Much appreciated.
Ian

[barand]

In a nutshell, the first is a 2 dimensional array - an indexed array where each element is an associative array. The second is a single-dimensional associative array where the key of each element is the id.

This should illustrate the differences

echo '<pre>';
print_r($kits_statuses );
echo "------------------------------------\n";
print_r($kits_status_array );
echo '</pre>';

hth