Ford, Mike wrote:
> On 17 June 2009 15:01, PJ advised:
>
>
>> It does, indeed. This confirms my inexperienced conclusion that
>> in_array() does not work on associative arrays per se; it works on
>> simple arrays and I just don't have the experience to think of
>> extracting only the id fields.
>>
>
> Let's squash this misconception again -- PHP only has associative
> arrays, it's just that in most contexts it treats numeric keys
> specially. So, internally, array('fred', 'bill', 'joe') is stored using
> exactly the same techniques as array('one'=>'fred', 'two'=>'bill',
> 'three'=>'joe'), but because the first one has numeric keys there are
> some things you can do with it that you can't with the second. But
> functions such as in_array, where all that really matters is the array's
> values, really couldn't care whether the keys are numeric, string, or a
> mixture.
>
Thanks for the explanation.
>
>> Also, the other problem was the option selected definition required
>> Shawn's clarification <select name='component-select' multiple ...
>>
> which
>
>> now highlights the selected fields. In all my searches (horrendously
>> wasted time) I did not find
>> any mention
>> of "component-select" either in php.net or w3c.org
>>
>
> I totally don't understand this comment: 'component-select' is just the
> name that Shawn chose to give his <select> field -- he could just as
> well have named it 'arnold-frog' without it making a blind bit of
> difference (so long as every other reference to it was changed to
> match!).
>
The way it was put, I understood that that was the definitive attribute
for the field. This confused me even more!
> Cheers!
>
> Mike
>
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