Posted by Vince Morgan on 10/05/06 04:19

Please excuse my previous responce, I hadn't paid enough attention to the
problem and assumed a query was involved.
My bad.
Looking closely now I see something a little curious.
You pass a string to 'TableData()'. 'TableData()' then attempts to extract
a string from the associated array '$row_Recordset1' using '$slot' as the
key.
However, the first access of '$row_Recordset1' is meant to assign a value to
'$slotuser' which, if it's name is meaningful, is unlikely to be a date.
If no string is assigned from this first attempt then in the 'else' block
the same value (as returned from the same array '$row_Recordset1', with the
same key '$slot') is appended to the end of that returned string. However,
the first 'if' test has detirmined that that element of the array is empty,
or doesn't exist.
From what I can see if the first 'if' block found no value to assign from
'$row_Recordset1' using '$slot' as the key, then it certainly won't do so in
the 'else' block either, as nothing has altered the values in
'$row_Recordset1' or '$slot' within the function. Same evaluation, same
result.
In the 'if' block you seem to be looking to extract a string from
'$row_Recordset1' using the key '$slot', and in the 'else' block you are
trying to extract a date using the same array and key?
Having said all that, I'm not sure why '$slot', when assigned the
appropriate value, does not work as a key into the array.


"BlackSpider" <BlackSpider@I.Dont.Exist.com> wrote in message
news:v5ednayzlo_lYr_YRVnytQ@eclipse.net.uk...
> <--PHP
> function TableData($slot)
> {
> global $row_Recordset1, $colour_FREE, $colour_TOOK;
>
> $slotuser = $row_Recordset1[$slot];
> if ($slotuser == "") {
> return ($colour_FREE.'" class="timeslot"><div
> align="center">'.$slotuser );
> }
> else {
> return ($colour_TOOK . '" class="timeslot"><div align="center">' .
> $row_Recordset1[ $slot ]);
> }
>
> }
> PHP-->
>
> The $row_Recordset1 array is set by mysql_fetch_assoc to get some table
> data, and I call this function with the table-row name (In this case
> "date"), like this: TableData('date')
>
> However, when trying to get the data of the row 'date' from the Record
using
> $slot, it returns a null string, regardless of what data is actually
there.
> If I replace $slot with 'date' in the code, it returns the correct value,
so
> the connection between php/Mysql is fine, but when trying to get the data
by
> using a String as the Key, it simply doesn' twork. Any ideas?
>
>
HTH
Vince Morgan

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