Array question

[tryin_to_learn]

Hi,

I'm trying to get people registered for a convention. There are several types of possible registrations -- individual, family, child, etc. and you can have more than one of any of the registration types. I'm planning to question people on the initial page to find out how many of each type of form they need. Then I thought I'd store all of that in a session variable -- probably an array -- so I can spit out the forms to them one at a time. So for example, someone might say that they need 2 individual forms, 1 family form, 1 child form and 2 sibling forms. I'd end up with data that looks like this:

$ind = 2;
$fam = 1;
$child = 1;
$sib = 2;

I can get it to do that much. It's the next part that's stumping me. What I thought was to populate an array with their own personalized form list, so, for example, the above data would end up looking like:

formList = array('ind', 'ind', 'fam', 'child', 'sib', 'sib');

How do I do that? Or maybe there's a better way to do the whole thing?

[Dan39]

array's arent just made up of value's, it is key's and then the value associated with each key, so the best thing to do would just start out with array(ind => 0, fam => 0, etc.) and then when they choose one just have it do like $array['ind']++

[tryin_to_learn]

Ok, so you're saying that each cell of the first array will be another array, right? I had thought that's how it might turn out. I've never tried to code anything like that. If anyone has any tips or knows of a good article or resource, I'd appreciate it.