Posted by Lorenzo Thurman on 05/14/07 12:02

Mike P2 wrote:
> On May 11, 5:38 pm, Lorenzo Thurman <lore...@diespammerhethurmans.com>
> wrote:
>> I'm passing an array which contains 2 arrays as subarrays to a function
>> that uses foreach to iterate through each sub-array. Each subarray has
>> exactly 7 items.
>> function listitems($anArray){
>>
>> // $anArray is 2-dim array
>> foreach($anArray as $item=>$arr){
>> var_dump($arr);
>>
>> }
>>
>> array(2) {
>> [0]=>
>> array(1) {
>> ["X"]=>
>> string(4) "this"
>> }
>> [1]=>
>> array(1){
>> ["y"]=>
>> string(3) "xyz"}
>>
>> Instead the items show up as scalars. Like this:
>> string[5]='string'
>> string[3]='xyz'
>>
>> In short, I would expect the foreach to create an array containing 1
>> item from subarray[0] and subarray[1] and display it as such. So clearly
>> I don't understand something, but how do I reference each item?
>
> I think you may be doing something wrong. It works for me. Or maybe I
> don't understand your question. Here's what I tested:
> <?php
> $t = array(
> array( 'a1', 'b1' ),
> array( 'a2', 'b2' )
> );
>
> foreach( $t as $i => $v )
> var_dump( $v );
> ?>
>
> And here's what I get:
> array(2) {
> [0]=>
> string(2) "a1"
> [1]=>
> string(2) "b1"
> }
> array(2) {
> [0]=>
> string(2) "a2"
> [1]=>
> string(2) "b2"
> }
>
> Is this test similar to yours?
>
> -Mike PII
>

Your setup is the same, but the result is different. Its what I would
expect. I just get those unreferenced scalars.

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