[RESOLVED] Variables

neroag

Probably a straight forward easy question but i cant figure it out LOL
I have an array

$array[1]
$array[2] etc etc

I want the $array[1] into a normal Variable ..

$array[1]=$normalvar sort of thing, i just cannot see how to do it :o

cahva

$normalvar = $array[1]; 😃

neroag

LOL i did try that LMAO

i can do echo $array[1]; & it works
but when i do ...

$normalvar = $array[1];
echo $normalvar;

it doesnt

bradgrafelman

What do you mean it "doesnt[sic]" ? What does it do? Do you have display_errors set to 'On' and error_reporting set to E_ALL ?

What if you use a function like [man]var_dump/man on both $array[1] and $normalvar ? What do the two different outputs look like?

neroag

Thanx the result of the var_dump ...

array[1] .. yahoo.com/1NULL
$normalvar = $array[1] .. NULL

bradgrafelman

Any chance we can see the actual bit of code you're using?

neroag

Sure thats the full snippet

Searches mysite.com for the members url & the corresponding member number

$url = "http://www.mysite.com";
$myfile = file($url); 
foreach ($myfile as $row=>$data) { 
preg_match('#<member_URL="(.*?)" Member_number="([0-9]+){1,}"/>#si', $data, $p);
$normalvar = $p[1];
echo $p[1];
echo $p[2];
}

Thing i need is to take $p[1] & $p[2] and make them normal vars

bradgrafelman

Why do you need to make them "normal variables" ? What's wrong with an array item?
In the snippet you provided, the value of $normalvar is being overwritten on each iteration of the loop. So, if the last line of the website doesn't contain text that matches the pattern, $normalvar will be blank. When are you trying to echo out $normalvar? Outside of the loop? If so, this is why.

neroag

so is there a way that i can get the value to carry outside the loop at all ?

bradgrafelman

In a regular variable that's not an array? No.

I would simply use [man]file_get_contents[/man] to get the HTML source of the remote website, [man]preg_match_all/man to search through that string and find all of the member URL's that match your pattern, and then loop through the array ($p in your example above, if you keep the same variable name) to work with all of the URL's and whatnot.

neroag

ok thank you for your advice, much appreciated