[RESOLVED] Help in function

[adrian_melange]

Howdy guys,

Anyone know how come the below outputs:
"A" and not "ABCDEFGHIJK" and how to make it return the entire string not just the first character?

Gracias!!

<?php
function calendar($tele_input) 
{
return $tele_input[0];
}

echo calendar("ABCDEFGHIJK");    // Should return entire string

?>

[vaaaska]

Is $tele_input an array?

function calendar($tele_input) 
{
// now it will work
return $tele_input;
}

echo calendar("ABCDEFGHIJK");    // Should return entire string

[pppppp]

vaaska is correct..u should get the entire string

[napper]

If you go back to C languages, strings are stored as an array of characters. So if you had

$var = "ABCDEFG";

You could refer to it as the var $var or you could look at it from an array whereas $var[0] would be A, $var[1] would be B. Look at my example below:

<?php
function calendar($tele_input)
{
//return $tele_input[0];
  for($i=0;$i<strlen($tele_input);$i++) {
     print($tele_input[$i] . "\n");
  }
}

echo calendar("ABCDEFGHIJK");    // Should return entire string

?>                                                                              

it would output

imac-g5:~/PHP tc$ php test.php 
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K                                                                               

Now to make the code you wrote work as is, you need to change your echo line to:

echo calendar(array("ABCDEFGHIJK"));    // Should return entire string

As now $tele_input would be an array where item [0] in the array would be your string ABCDEFGHIJK.

Hope that explains it all to you.

[adrian_melange]

😃 thanx guys! gotcha!!

[pppppp]

if ur problem is solved then make it 'resolved'...

thanks