While loop making too many arrays

[rollin340]

I need help, badly. What I am making right now is a date picker. Pretty much updating on it for my own use.

I needed to block out specific date ranges. I found a code to do this, and it utilizes arrays. I like that.

What I then needed was a way to create the array with every date within the range, because I only entered the Start Date and the End Date. Found one. Works like a charm.

But now, I have a problem. It creates a new array using the same $. So the only array that the calender registers is the newest one.

I've tried a few things, but nothing seems to work. Been thinking about this for a while now. Any help?

<?php
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	function createDateRangeArray($strDateFrom,$strDateTo) //Changes a Range of Dates to Specific Dates
		{
		$aryRange = array(); //Creates an Array

	$iDateFrom = mktime(1,0,0,substr($strDateFrom,5,2),     substr($strDateFrom,8,2),substr($strDateFrom,0,4));
	$iDateTo = mktime(1,0,0,substr($strDateTo,5,2),     substr($strDateTo,8,2),substr($strDateTo,0,4));

	if ($iDateTo >= $iDateFrom)
		{
		array_push($aryRange,date('Y-m-d',$iDateFrom)); // first entry

		while ($iDateFrom<$iDateTo)
			{
		  $iDateFrom += 86400; // add 24 hours
		  array_push($aryRange,date('Y-m-d',$iDateFrom));
			}
		}

	return $aryRange; //Returns to step 1 and adds another value into the array
	}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////



$d = "SELECT startdate, enddate FROM classdetails";
$f = mysql_query($d);

while ($e = mysql_fetch_array($f)) 
	{
	while (list($g, $h) = each($e)) { $$g = $h; } 
		{
		$aryDates = createDateRangeArray($startdate,$enddate);
		print_r($aryDates);
		echo "<br />";
		}
	}
?>

And for those wondering, I do include references of where some of my work is taken from, even if heavily modified.

As you can see, the problem lies with the fact that once it creates an array, it just creates a new one. I've tried using ifelse statements, empty(), isset(), increments (didn't even know how to use them, just thought a long time and deleted it).

So, what can I do here?

What I always get back is:

Array ( [0] => 2010-12-16 [1] => 2010-12-17 [2] => 2010-12-18 [3] => 2010-12-19 [4] => 2010-12-20 [5] => 2010-12-21 [6] => 2010-12-22 [7] => 2010-12-23 ) 
Array ( [0] => 2010-12-25 [1] => 2010-12-26 [2] => 2010-12-27 [3] => 2010-12-28 [4] => 2010-12-29 )

I can't even merge them.

[ZibingsCoder]

Why don't you try creating an array of arrays? Each time you call createDateRangeArray() assign it to $aryDates[] and see if you get what you expect that way (I would move the print_r() call outside the loop).

[rollin340]

The print_r is in there so it would print every array that the code has created. Merely to see what has been made.

If you put it after the entire code, it merely prints the last array, which is the root of my problem.

This is merely to attain the array. The next step would be this:

		<script type="text/javascript">
			$(function(){

			// Datepicker
			$('#datepicker1').datepicker({
				numberOfMonths: 3,
				showButtonPanel: true,
				dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
				beforeShowDay: checkAvailability,
				inline: true
			});

		var $myBadDates = new Array (<?php foreach($aryDates as $disabledate) { echo " \"$disabledate\","; } echo " 1"; ?>); //Creates the array (The echo " 1"; is merely to close the array and will not affect the outcome

		function checkAvailability(mydate){
		var $return=true;
		var $returnclass ="available";
		$checkdate = $.datepicker.formatDate('yy-mm-dd', mydate);
		for(var i = 0; i < $myBadDates.length; i++)
			{    
			   if($myBadDates[i] == $checkdate)
				  {
				$return = false;
				$returnclass= "unavailable";
				}
			}
		return [$return,$returnclass];
		}
	</script>

I essentially grab every value and disable it's date in the calendar.

And I am not too sure as to how to assign it to $aryDates from loop 2 onwards either. I don't think an array of arrays would work either.

See the dilemma I'm having? I need a single array of all dates, which is pretty tough to figure out. For me at least.

[rollin340]

All I had to do was change:

$aryRange = array(); //Creates an Array

to:

static $aryRange = array(); //Creates an Array