Posted by Magnus Warker on 07/24/05 18:46

Dear Shelly,

thank you again for giving hints! .-)

> OK, that is simpler. Here is a suggestion. Set a hidden variable as
> "the_index" with a value equal to zero. Then as your index changes, set
> the
> value of the_index to that value. Now you begin the loop at the value of
> the_index with a pre-test.
>
> $pos = $POST['the_index'] or $pos = $the_index. (I'm not sure which)
> while (blah) do {
> }

I think there is a misunderstanding here:

I have an associative array, and my understanding of this kind of creature
is that we cannot access elements by a numerical index, right?

So storing a value in $POST['the_index'] means storing the key of the
current item.

In analogy, retrieving a value from $POST['the_index'] means retrieving the
key of the item which was the current item some time ago.

However, having the key of the item which was the current item some time ago
does not enable me to set the internal pointer of the "current" item within
the array, does it?

My problem is not storing and retrieving some values, but modifying the
internal state of an array.

See what I mean?

Magnus

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