Posted by mootmail-googlegroups on 12/17/01 11:55

Ørjan Langbakk wrote:
> And, as I am also new to the array-functions, how would I go around
> creating that file, and pulling the different values from it?
>
> I'm thinking I could use something like:
>
> <?php
> $prices = array (
> product1 => 1200,
> product2 => 2400,
> product3 => 3450,
> )
> ?>
>

To do this, put that $prices array in a file all by itself.
Then, from the page that needs to use this data, use require_once [1]
to include the file.
To access the data for a specific product, then, you would say, for
example, $prices['product1'].

This can be a very easy to implement solution, but difficult to
maintain in the long run. I agree with those advocating using, at the
very least, CSV (though I've never done it, so probably won't be of
much help). Once someone decides they want to do more with the website
and/or the data, you are going to wish you had a more flexible data
backend than an include file with an array.


[1] - http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.require-once.php

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