[RESOLVED] filling an array depending on a variable

[sander_ESP]

hello ,

i want to fill an array with numbers depending on a variable.

on the page for holiday booking, the user gives the date of arrival and the date of departure,

now i have written code to determine the number of days the user is staying.

say this is 5
now i want to fill a variable with the numbers 1,2,3,4,5

if the user stays 3 days the variable should be filled with 1,2,3

i came up with this

$muliplier = dateDiff("/", $date2, $date1);
$i=1;


while ($i < $muliplier) {

$a = array($i => $i);
$i++;
}

print $a;

but this doenst seem to work.. anyone?

[halojoy]

<?php

$muliplier = dateDiff("/", $date2, $date1);
// test the variable
echo 'muliplier: '.$muliplier; // debug test

$i=1;
while ($i <= $muliplier) {
    $a[$i] = $i;
    $i++;
}

// test display the resulting array
echo '<pre>'.print_r( $a,  true).'</pre>';

?>

[bradgrafelman]

A simpler code would be:

$muliplier = dateDiff("/", $date2, $date1); 
$a = range(1, (int)$muliplier);

Of course, you might want to add some error-handling to ensure that $muliplier > 0.

[sander_ESP]

THX :-)