[RESOLVED] associative arrays?

[_theworks]

Hi,

Ok im tryin to build a DB off acronym's and their definition's so i can use it to search though articles for acronyms (ie: PHP) and replace them with the corresponding acronym tag (ie: <acronym title="PHP hypertext preprocessor">PHP</acronym>)

so whats the problem? the problem is that i want all my acronyms in an associative array like so

$acronyms = array(
    'html' => 'Hypertext Markup Language',
    'php' => 'PHP Hypertext Preprocessor',
    'xml' => 'Extensible Markup language',
    );

but i want the associative array to be generated dynamicly from the values im getting from a string that im exploding like so. (this code puts them into arrays but associative array's are wot puzzle me)

<?
$string_2xplode = 'HTML[+]HyperText Markup Language[-]
				   PHP[+]PHP hypertext preprocessor[-]
				   CSS[+]Cascading Sylesheets[-] ';

$str_buff = explode('[-]',$string_2xplode);
$acronym_count= (count($str_buff)-2);

for($i=0;$i<=$acronym_count;$i++){
	$str_buff1 = explode('[+]',$str_buff[$i]);	
	$acc[$i] = $str_buff1[0];
	$acc_def[$i] = $str_buff1[1];
}

for($i=0;$i<=$acronym_count;$i++){
	echo $acc[$i].' : '.$acc_def[$i].'<br>';
}
?>

can some1 please help me?

[coreyp_1]

This will give you the array output you are looking for. As a bonus, you can use foreach() to move through the record to tidy things up a bit (I hate counting through an array). You might add an ltrim() or some other function to take care of extra whitespace in your $string_2xplode variable.

$string_2xplode = 'HTML[+]HyperText Markup Language[-]
                   PHP[+]PHP hypertext preprocessor[-]
                   CSS[+]Cascading Sylesheets[-] ';

$str_buff = explode('[-]',$string_2xplode);

$acc = array();

foreach ($str_buff as $buff) {
  list($temp1, $temp2) = explode('[+]', $buff);
  $acc[$temp1] = $temp2;
}

foreach ($acc as $key => $val) {
  echo $key.' : '.$val.'<br>';
}

[_theworks]

:eek: Thats amazing man thank you so much!