[RESOLVED] accessing a multiple array

[stewartship]

Hi everyone!

Should be straight forward but having a bit of a mental block!

i have a multiple array consisting of three arrays:

$product_list= array($name,$stock,$unit_id);

where $name is an array / list of product names
$stock is an array / list of stock id's
$unit_id is an array / list of unit_id's for units of the products

all these arrays are of equal length and tested to make sure they contain data

SO

if i want to access the data from product list is the following correct for the values, after the very first values which i will use a seperate for loop for (i.e. when $a = 0):

for ($a=1; $a<(count($product_list)); $a++){ // goes through the array

$name = $product_list[$a][0][0]; // giving the product name
$stock = $product_list[0][$a][0]; // giving the stock id corresponding to that paroduct
$unit = $product_list[0][0][$a];

}

Thank you in advance for any help.

[frikikip]

No I don't think you have got it correct.

First off all you have an 2 dimensional array, not three dimensional.

I think your loop should look like this

for ($a=1, $max = count($product_list[0]); $a<$max; $a++){ // Count the length of all the names

$name = $product_list[0][$a]; // Get the name
$stock = $product_list[1][$a]; // Get the stock at the same location as the name
$unit = $product_list[2][$a]; // Get the unitID at the same location as the name

} 

Greets,

Marvin

[stewartship]

Hey Marvin!

Cheers for the input, that worked a treat, new i was making a mountain out of a mole-hill!!

Sorry about the three dimensional thing, been staring at code for so long now seem to be making things up as i go along!!!

ah well that is the nature of the beast though!

Thanks again!