Olav Mørkrid wrote:
chris
for your suggestion to work, the internal array pointer of $array
would first have to be set to point to the current element ($index).
but how do you do this?
this may seem like childs play, but i actually can't find any
documented php function for this. it would be something like:
My apologies - I misread your post. I just thought you wanted the next
record, not the next key.
Jim's function looked pretty easy and simple :)
On 12/07/07, Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Olav Mørkrid wrote:
> let's say we have the following associative array:
>
> $array = array(
> "red" => "ferrari",
> "yellow" => "volkswagen",
> "green" => "mercedes",
> "blue" => "volvo"
> );
>
> then we have a current index into the array:
>
> $index = "yellow";
> $current = $array[$index];
>
> now: how do i get the key of the next array element (in this case
"green")?
>
> $next = ?
Funnily enough:
$next = next($array);
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.next.php
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