Array help

rr1024

Hello all ;-)

I have a pretty large list of countries in this format

$prof['countries'][204] = "United Kingdom";
$prof['countries'][205] = "USA";
$prof['countries'][206] = "Uruguay";
$prof['countries'][207] = "Uzbekistan";
$prof['countries'][208] = "Vanuatu";
$prof['countries'][209] = "Vatican";
$prof['countries'][210] = "Venezuela";
$prof['countries'][211] = "Viet Nam";
$prof['countries'][212] = "Virgin Islands";
$prof['countries'][213] = "Western Sahara";
$prof['countries'][214] = "Yeman";
$prof['countries'][215] = "Yugoslavia";
$prof['countries'][216] = "Zaire";
$prof['countries'][217] = "Zambia";
$prof['countries'][218] = "Zimbabwe";

#This is this still part of $prof
$prof['religion'][0] = "I prefer not to say";
$prof['religion'][1] = "Adventist";
$prof['religion'][2] = "Agnostic";
$prof['religion'][3] = "Atheist";
$prof['religion'][4] = "Baptist";
$prof['religion'][5] = "Buddhist";
$prof['religion'][6] = "Caodaism";

In the data base they stored just the number for the country i.e. 205 for someone who is in the USA.

What are the different ways to echo specific parts of $prof on a page does it always have to be like

echo $prof['countries'][205];

Next I'd like to create a cross reference list of countries that meet the ISO3166 standard

GB GBR 826 United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland
UM UMI 581 United States Minor Outlying Islands
US USA 840 United States of America
UY URY 858 Uruguay, Eastern Republic of
UZ UZB 860 Uzbekistan
VU VUT 548 Vanuatu
VE VEN 862 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
VN VNM 704 Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of
WF WLF 876 Wallis and Futuna Islands
EH ESH 732 Western Sahara
YE YEM 887 Yemen
ZM ZMB 894 Zambia, Republic of
ZW ZWE 716 Zimbabwe

So now I have a 2 digit code a 3 digit code and a 3 digit numaric code.
Could I create a seperate list like this with the $iso

$prof['countries'][205] = "USA";
$iso['countries'][205][US][USA][840] = "United States of America";

or would I need to do it this way.

$prof['countries'][205] = "USA";
$iso2['countries'][205] = "US";
$iso3['countries'][205] = "USA";
$iso3['countries'][205] = "840";

Basically what I want is to know the array number like 205 and fetch the 2 digit and/or 3 digit and/or 3 digit numeric code

I'm just trying to figure out the best way to get any of the codes for a country...

Here is an idea but don't know if this will work at all
What if I replaced the values in

$prof['countries'][205] = "USA"; 
WITH
$prof['countries'][205] = $ISO["countryname"];

THEN
$ISO["countryname"][205] = "United States of America";
$ISO['code2'][205] = "US";
$ISO['code3'][205] = "USA";
$ISO['code4'][205] = "840";

mmm, maybe I'm confusing my self now.....LOL

dhodge

What does the variable $prof serve?

Could you just make 2 arrays on being
$country and the other $religion?

For printing... not much more than to print them out with an echo.
Definitly use a loop...

 
foreach($prof["countries"] AS $country)
echo $country;

And lastly on how to store the codes...I would probably use an object approach.

 
class Country
{
var $name;
var $codes;

function Country($name, $codes)
{
$this->name = $name;
$this->codes = $codes;
}

$prof["countries"][0] = new Country("United States", array("USA", "US"));

echo $prof["countries"][0]->name;
echo $prof["countries"][0]->codes[0];
echo $prof["countries"][0]->codes[1];

rr1024

This is exsiting code and I'm trying to figure out a way to adapt it with doing as few changes as possible.

$prof
is used by several functions that create pull down lists for user selection for example and it also used to display a specific country on the user profile. That is about all it's used for that I can see.

so I can't really split $prof up because it's used all over the place.

But maybe your example is the way to go....

Do you think this would work?
If I modify the exsisting vars like this

 
$prof['countries'][204] = $ISO["countries"][204]->name;
$prof['countries'][205] = $ISO["countries"][205]->name; 




Then add

$ISO["countries"][204] = new Country("United Kingdom of Great Britain", array("GBR", "GB","826"));
$ISO["countries"][205] = new Country("United States of America", array("USA", "US","840"));

#echo $prof["countries"][205]->name;
#echo $prof["countries"][205]->codes[0];
#echo $prof["countries"][205]->codes[1];

class Country
{
    var $name;
    var $codes;

      function Country($name, $codes) {
           $this->name = $name;
           $this->codes = $codes;
      }
}

So if $ISO["countries"][204]->name will deliver the country Name "United Kingdom of Great Britain" to the orginal $prof['countries'][204] array varible so that the rest of the system sees this as a transparent then when I need the ISO information I can just call it directly....

If something like that would work then I think it would be great and I'm not having to maintain two different tables of the same or partially the same information.

Then I should be able to Echo this stuff out anytime/anywhere right???

echo $ISO["countries"][205]->name;
//OUTPUTS = United States of America
echo $ISO["countries"][205]->codes[0];
//OUTPUTS = USA
echo $ISO["countries"][205]->codes[1];
//OUTPUTS = US
echo $ISO["countries"][205]->codes[2];
//OUTPUTS = 840

AND OR
echo $prof['countries'][205];
//OUTPUTS = United States of America

kitchin

Why not just parse the ISO3166 list? Or parse it once and store it in a database?