| Re: Need help accessing the key array. [message #185428 is a reply to message #185412] |
Mon, 31 March 2014 02:44  |
Doug Miller
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Kongthap Thammachat <kongthap(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in news:f0d2dbc9-bd6e-4407-8d29-
a8d2e6462ebe(at)googlegroups(dot)com:
> <?php
>
> $rates = array(
> array("animal" => 0, "color" => 0, "rate" => 5),
> array("animal" => 0, "color" => 1, "rate" => 10),
[...]
> array("animal" => 3, "color" => 1, "rate" => 55),
> array("animal" => 3, "color" => 2, "rate" => 60)
> );
>
> $input_animal = 1;
> $input_color = 2;
>
> ?>
>
> How to access the $rates array to echo the associated rate of "animal" => 1 and "color"
=> 2 ? (which is 30), should i re-designed the $rates array?
Rather than redesigning the $rates array, I think you should redesign your entire approach.
Instead of loading this data into an array in php, load it into a SQL database instead. Then
your above retrieval is simple:
SELECT rate FROM rates WHERE animal = 1 AND color = 2;
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