[Resolved] foreach loop troubles

[earthlingzed]

I have a key/value array with states info that looks like this (abreviated for space):

// states arrays
$states = array("AL"=>"Alabama [AL]",
				"AK"=>"Alaska [AK]",
				"AZ"=>"Arizona [AZ]",
				"AR"=>"Arkansas [AR]",
				"CA"=>"California [CA]",
				"CO"=>"Colorado [CO]",
				"CT"=>"Connecticut [CT]");

I am trying to loop through that array to spit out an HTML select form element but am running into trouble trying to access the key. I am using this PHP loop:

			foreach($states as $k => $v){
				$form .="
				<option value=\"" . $states[$k] . "\"";

			if ($sstate == $states[$k]){
				$form .=" selected=\"selected\"";
			}
			$form .= ">" . $states[$v] . "</option>";
		}

and I am getting HTML output that looks like this:

		<select name="form_sc2">
			<option value="Alabama [AL]"></option>
			<option value="Alaska [AK]"></option>
			<option value="Arizona [AZ]"></option>
			<option value="Arkansas [AR]"></option>
			<option value="California [CA]"></option>

			<option value="Colorado [CO]"></option>
			<option value="Connecticut [CT]"></option>

etc ...

The value is writing in where the key should be and the key is no where to be seen. I am stumped!

Any help is appreciated.

[tsinka]

Hi,

replace
$states[$k]
by
$k

and

$states[$v]
by
$v

Thomas

[earthlingzed]

Thank you. I was hoping it was something that simple! It works now.