[Resolved] ARRAYS Help!!

[Roger_Ramjet]

Help please. It says all over the manual that PHP arrays are associative, but when I try to use one that way, NO WAY.

Then I find this in the manual

"
// Append an item (note that the new key is 5, instead of 0 as you
// might expect).
"

and yes that is exactly what I expect.

So how the hell do you store a numeric table id as the key and access it by the index, like in all the other languages I've ued over the years?

[Shrike]

The problem is that PHP doesn't reset the array pointer when items are removed (quite probably not a problem but a benefit in some situations). The manual offers a way to reset the pointer - is that no good?

[Roger_Ramjet]

Well, in this case no. I knew about the

// Re-index:
$array = array_values($array);

My problem is that I built an array using table id's as the key and expected to be able to access them by index, only it takes the integer id and makes that the index, not the key. Crap I call it.

[Shrike]

Quoting the key should work?

[Roger_Ramjet]

Yep. Slaps head and groans. And I should have thought of that myself.