[RESOLVED] returning an array with a funcition

[spiritssight]

Hello,

I am working on improving my page_nav_bar function, and I am now trying to add the section of the page that shows the current page result numbers that display and also the time it toke to do the search etc

So my question is:
how could I return an array I want say array[a] to be the page nav bar and say array to be the page stats bar

array[a] holds the var ( $page_nav_bar )
array holds the var ( $page_stat_bar )

Thanks for the assistance,

Sincerely,
Christopher

[spiritssight]

OK,

This is what I have tried:

$page_bar = array
(
'page' => $page_nav_bar,
'stat' => $page_stat_bar
);

return "$page_bar";
}

this returns ( array ) when I run my function now if I put return "$page_bar[page]"; it will return the correct stuff for the var $page_nav_bar and I am not able to have the $page_stat_bar show when its needed

below is the full code for the function:

<?php

// $searchquery = "test"; // var from url
// $totalrecords = 172; // total rows found from the search
// $pagenumber = $_GET['pn']; // page number that is being displayed

function page_bar($display, $searchquery, $totalrecords, $offset, $pagenumber = '1', $recordsperpage = '20')
{
$firstpage = 1; // first page
$lastpage = ceil($totalrecords/$recordsperpage); // last page

$page_nav_bar = ''; // var thats used to hold what will be displayed for the page nav bar

if($pagenumber > $firstpage)
{
$page_nav_bar .= "<a href=\"http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ."?sq=$searchquery&pn=$firstpage\">First</a> ";
$page_nav_bar .= ' | ';
$prevpage = $pagenumber - 1;
$page_nav_bar .= "<a href=\"http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ."?sq=$searchquery&pn=$prevpage\">Prev</a> ";
}

$page_nav_bar .= " Page $pagenumber of $lastpage ";

if($pagenumber < $lastpage)
{
$nextpage = $pagenumber + 1;
$page_nav_bar .= "<a href=\"http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ."?sq=$searchquery&pn=$nextpage\">Next</a>";
$page_nav_bar .= ' | ';
$page_nav_bar .= "<a href=\"http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ."?sq=$searchquery&pn=$lastpage\">Last</a>";
}

$page_nav_bar .="
		<form name=\"goto_page\" action=\"". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."\" method=\"GET\">
		<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"sq\" value=\"$searchquery\" />
		 Goto page: <input type=\"text\" name=\"pn\" size=\"1\" maxlength=\"2\" />
			<input type=\"submit\" name=\"go\" value=\"Go\" />
		</form>";

if($display == 1)
{
$dsn = $offset + 1;
$den = $offset + $recordsperpage;
$process_time = '0.01 Sec';
$page_stat_bar = "Your search for $searchquery found $totalrecords displaying $dsn to $den ($process_time)<br /><br />";
}
else
{
$page_stat_bar = "";
}

// $page_bar = $page_nav_bar;
// $page_bar .= $page_stat_bar;
$page_bar = array
(
'page' => $page_nav_bar,
'stat' => $page_stat_bar
);

return "$page_bar";
}

// echo "<center>" . page_bar($searchquery, $totalrecords, $pagenumber) . "</center>";

?>

if you look I have // out two var if I unblock them and block the array then it will work the way I want but I then don't have contral over where the sec part goes and thats not good either 🙁

Any advice would be greatly thankful!

Sincerely,
Christopher

[NogDog]

Do not quote the variable in the return() statement: you want to return the array, not a string.

[spiritssight]

so once the array is passed, how do I call it?

Thanks,
Christopher

[NogDog]

You assign the result of the function to a variable.

$result = page_bar($arg1, $arg2,...);
print_r($result);

[spiritssight]

Thanks very very much :-) I was close but did not try that, I did try other things and I was close with how to get the information from the var but I just did not know I also needed to assign the function to a var :-)

Thanks again!
Christopher