On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 16:11 -0500, PJ wrote:
> foreach does a nice job if you want the results identical each time.
> What can you use to change the formatting of the results dependent on
> the number of results.
> Here's an example:
> foreach ( $authors[$bookID] AS $authorID => $authorData ) {
> # Display the
> echo "{$authorData['first_name']}
> {$authorData['last_name']}\n";
> }
>
> will echo - Joe Boe John Blue Andy Candy etc depending on how many rows
> we have.
> What I want is: Joe Boe, John Blue, Andy Candy & Hans Stick ( separated
> by commas, except for the last one which is separated with & .
> I thought of passing a variable to the foreach and then using if
> elseif... but that can't work because the variable is reset to 0 after
> each pass.
> Can't get switch to do it (maybe I don't understand it right.
> Help ?
>
> --
> unheralded genius: "A clean desk is the sign of a dull mind. "
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.ptahhotep.com
> http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php
>
>
$count = 1;
foreach ( $authors[$bookID] AS $authorID => $authorData )
{
echo "{$authorData['first_name']} {$authorData['last_name']}\n";
echo($count < count($authors[$bookID]))?', ':' & ';
$count ++;
}
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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