More than 3 values in each array?

Beavis2084

I am trying to increase the number of variables in the following code:

<?php

$MenuLeft = array(
"CCPI"=> "ccpi.coleclan.net",
"Coasters"=> "coasters.coleclan.net",
"COD"=> "cod.coleclan.net",
"Convert"=> "convert.coleclan.net");


echo "<body bgcolor=\"#000000\" text=\"#FFFFFF\">";

foreach($MenuLeft as $MenuItem=>$MenuLink)
{
  print "<a href=\"http://$MenuLink\" style=\"color:#ffffff; text-decoration:none\"
                onMouseOver = \"rollover('$MenuItem')\"
                onMouseOut = \"rollout('$MenuItem')\"
                ><img border=\"0\" src=\"./images/head_bullet_blank.gif\" alt=\"*\" name=\"$MenuItem\"
        >&nbsp;$MenuItem</a><br>";
}

?>

So far this works fine.. However, I want to add a couple of things to appear right after the link outside of the <a> tags...

e.g. : CCPI NEW!

I figured the only good way to implement this in my layout that is used in the end product would to be to add to the array definitions.

I thought that increasing the length (adding what i need) would allow me to what i need. Here is what I tried...:

<?php

$MenuLeft = array(
"CCPI"=> "ccpi.coleclan.net",
"Coasters"=> "coasters.coleclan.net"=> "New!",
"COD"=> "cod.coleclan.net",
"Convert"=> "convert.coleclan.net");


echo "<body bgcolor=\"#000000\" text=\"#FFFFFF\">";

foreach($MenuLeft as $MenuItem=>$MenuLink=>$NewQ)
{
  print "<a href=\"http://$MenuLink\" style=\"color:#ffffff; text-decoration:none\"
                onMouseOver = \"rollover('$MenuItem')\"
                onMouseOut = \"rollout('$MenuItem')\"
                ><img border=\"0\" src=\"./images/head_bullet_blank.gif\" alt=\"*\" name=\"$MenuItem\"
        >&nbsp;$MenuItem</a>$NewQ<br>";
}

?>


but i get this error when i use that code...

[code]

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_DOUBLE_ARROW, expecting ')' in /var/www/coleclan/testing/new/arraytest.php on line 5

So... how do i properly do this?

What i want to get back to is something that allows me to "tack-on" a little image/link to the right of selected links that are generated using the array bit.

For example... in my old layout ( http://coleclan.net/_baks/previous_index_system/index.php )
(and i know the images are broken) i would add on to the end of the link a image/link if it were say a new item or if there was a search function related to the subdomain, i could drop it in. Looked neat, i liked it.

Obviously i am noobing here, but i have not played with Arrays for too long.... learning it!

Thanks!

rehfeld

this is the problem

"Coasters"=> "coasters.coleclan.net"=> "New!",

if you want to use nested arrays, you would do like this

"Coasters"=> array("coasters.coleclan.net"=> "New!"),

Beavis2084

okay... but how will that work in the rest of my scheme...

i got to this solution because of all the code associated to each link. lots of it if i enter each link fully coded in html. So i used the array so i could poke the values into the places it needed to be and the result would be the full list of links.

if i use your proposed method, don;t i loose the basic functionality that i already have?

i need to have it so that there may or may not be value3, 4 , etc...

like this....

item1link  searchimage  newimage
item2link
item3link  newimage
item4link  updatedimage
item5link  searchimage  updatedimage
item6link  searchimage
item7link

if you look at my old layout as linked above (don't mind the broken images) you will see the end result that i am after.

essentially, if i make change to a paticular page, i want to edit the line in the array to "punch-in" the image link so the "New!" graphic shows up to the right of the link.... which was generated along with a list of others.

perhaps i am not clear.

i am very noob... so mabey it is just that i need more code example to understand?

Weedpacket

Something a bit more descriptive, perhaps?

$MenuLeft = array(
array('item'=>'Coasters', 'link'=>'coasters.coleclan.net', 'sidenote'=>'New!'),
array('item'=>'SomethingElse', 'link'=>'www.example.com'),
...
);

Then foreach($MenuLeft as $menuitem) the item will be in $menuitem['item'], the link will be in $menuitem['link'], and any sidenote (if it's set) will be in $menuitem['sidenote'].

The same thing can be continued for further components. If there's a chance that there may be a whole list of components of a particular type, then that would be a $MenuLeft element of the form 'somesortoflist'=>array('listitem1', 'listitem2', 'listitem3', ...);.