associative arrays in php

[Anon]

i've spent a couple of hours with this and i cant find the answer to the problem.. here it goes....

let's say we define an array: $ar = array ( 1st => one, 2nd => two);

and now a variable.....

$string = "2nd";

...i would expect.....

$ar[$string] == "two" but in fact I get nothing.......

...why?

Cheers,

Emilio.

[van__]

Dunno man...
<?
$ar = array ( '1st' => 'one', '2nd' => 'two');
$string = "2nd";
print_r($ar);
echo "<p>".$ar[$string];
?>

worked fine for me.
The way you wrote it out was a parser error though:
$ar = array ( 1st => one, 2nd => two); //is illegal since strings MUST be quoted.

[Anon]

It was the quotes....plus no warning or errors being displayed.