printing associative arrays with foreach

[johnd]

hi all,

I've just started dabbling with php and i'm trying to print an associate array using foreach, but if i have a duplicate keys foreach only prints one of the key value pairs. I want to print a list of music artists and the song they perform, so i have say

$songs = array("britney spears"=>"oops", "britney sprears"=>"crazy","jessica simpson"=>"some song");

foreach($songs as $artist=>$song){
echo "$artist sings $song <br />";
}

i want to be able to print even the duplicate keys. is there another way to do this?

thanks for the help.

john

[planetsim]

With an Array you cannot have the same index name. It will be overwritten. What you could try is something called multidemional arrays. Theres a stickied thread which i created which has some information about them basically for what you doing something like this would be good

$songs = array("britney spears" => array("oops","crazy"),"jessica simpson" => array("some song"));

For this to work you will need to use something like a for loop

[johnd]

thanks for the reply. i saw that post. that's what i was thinking i'd have to do - multi-dimensional array. i'm going to reread your post to get some more information.

thanks for the help.

john