array_push not working?!

[phpjaco]

hello

i have the following script:

  if (count($now_ten) == 0) {
       $now_ten = array("Below is a list of all new topten entries");
     } else array_push($now_ten, $name);

   $response2 = "<u>Array contains:</u></br>";
    foreach ($now_ten as $value) {
	    $response2 .= $value . "<br>";

basically checks if an array exsists and if it doesnt then pushes a new value in the end of the array? yet the foreach statement seems to only print out the last value [seems like the array_push statement erases the last value?]

any ideas would be helpfull

[devinemke]

what variable type is $name?

[phpjaco]

$name was from a form, but the way i solved it was by defining the array on another page and making it a session variable.

seems the problem was that the array kept creating itself and only adding the last value of the $name in.

strange because the count($array) was suppose to solve that but hey its fixed now...

thanx