Posted by Norman Peelman on 01/12/08 05:14

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Kurda Yon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I try to construct an array such that each element of it is another
>> array returned by the fetch_array_function:
>>
>> for ( $i = 1; $i<=$n; $i++ )
>> {
>> $ar[$i] = mysql_fetch_array( $result );
>> print "$ar[$i][fieldname]\n";
>> }
>>
>> It prints "Array[fieldname]".
>>
>> If I replace $ar[$i] by $ar everything works fine! Could you pleas
>> help me with that?
>>
>
> print $ar[$i]['fieldname'] . "\n";
> or
> print "{$ar[$i]['fieldname']}\n";
>
> [fieldname] will give you an E_NOTICE if enabled (and it should be on
> your development system).
>

A notice is not thrown in this case because the key is already within
double quotes. The problem is fixed by the necessity to use { }'s when
using multi-dimensional arrays within double quotes. I normally use this
method. To get PHP to throw a NOTICE, remove the single quotes from your
second example.

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Norman
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