Help with array

[LotsOfZeros]

Here is my link structure:
./showities.php?stateid=05

code contained in showcities.php:

<?php

$stateid = $_GET['stateid'];

$array_state_id[01] = 'AL';
$array_state_id[02] = 'AK';
$array_state_id[03] = 'AZ';
$array_state_id[04] = 'AR';
$array_state_id[05] = 'CA';
$array_state_id[06] = 'CO';
$array_state_id[07] = 'CT';
$array_state_id[08] = 'DE';

$stateabrev = $array_state_id[$stateid];

echo $stateabrev;
?>

It's not echoing the expected value "CA".
I think I did something wrong when I defined the $stateabrev variable.

 

[Insomniac]

05 is a string, 5 is a number, 05 is interpreted as a number unless quoted.

Eg...

$arr[05] != $arr['05']
$arr[05] == $arr[5]

Without fixing the rest of your code, you could simply do this instead:

$stateabrev = $array_state_id[intval($stateid)];

 

[LotsOfZeros]

intval...

Thanks much - thought I was going insane!

 

[Rage9]

^^ That sounds about right. Why dont you just use 1, 2, 3, 4 rather than 01, 02, 03, 04?

 

[LotsOfZeros]

^^ That sounds about right. Why dont you just use 1, 2, 3, 4 rather than 01, 02, 03, 04?

because it relates to a column in a database table that's unsigned/zerofill and I want to keep it that way for standardization

 

[kblessinggr]

because it relates to a column in a database table that's unsigned/zerofill and I want to keep it that way for standardization

Even if you numbered the array a standard numeric, its gona get zero filled automatically upon entering it into the database.

 

[LotsOfZeros]

Even if you numbered the array a standard numeric, its gona get zero filled automatically upon entering it into the database.

Thanks for that. I really never gave that much thought - I've always just tried to give it what I see in the actual data.

 

[joyce69]

using Array the work is very easy. we can also display tabular data using array. In this two, three dimensional array is also available.

 

[kblessinggr]

using Array the work is very easy. we can also display tabular data using array. In this two, three dimensional array is also available.

ORly? (this how you wanted to spend your first post, with something so damn obvious and unimportant to the question at hand...)

 

[erect]

Looks like a spelling error

./showities.php?stateid=05

should be

./showtitties.php?stateid=05

 

[stevehnsn]

should be

./showtitties.php?stateid=05

^^^
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