ah, comments for http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.return.php show: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- php at thunder-2000 dot com 02-Feb-2007 10:31 If you want to get a part of an array to manipulate, you can use this function function &getArrayField(&$array,$path) { if (!empty($path)) { if (empty($array[$path[0]])) return NULL; else return getArrayField($array[$path[0]], array_slice($path, 1)); } else { return $array; } } Use it like this: $partArray =& getArrayField($GLOBALS,array("config","modul1")); You can manipulate $partArray and the changes are also made with $GLOBALS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Rene Veerman <rene7705@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi.. > > I've got a db-insert command array that's several levels deep.. > Let's abstract this as: > $wm[$idx1][$idx2][$idx3][..etc] //$WorkMemory > > Several of my helper functions need to work on the "original, > top-call_level" $wm. > So i pass it as &$wm, and have the helper function declarations accept > it as such aswell. > > Some of the $idxN vars are in an array $pathToDBcmd ($idx3, $idx4, > ...) in some of the helper functions. > > Now i need to change a variable deep in the original, top-call_level > $wm, but with some of the required indexes in $pathToDBcmd.. > > I can't use something like > $wm[$idx1][$idx2][$pathToDBcmd[0]][$pathToDBcmd[1]] because i dont > know what count($pathToDBcmd) is.. > > Tips will be much appreciated.. > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
