hey guys, I need a little assistance here. I've got an array like the one below ========================================== $league = array("NFL"=>1,"NCAAF"=>2,"NBA"=>3,"NCAAB"=>4,"C_BASE"=>6,"NHL"=>7,"WNDA"=>8,"WCS"=>9,"BOX"=>10,"PGA"=>11,"TENNIS"=>12,"ARENA"=>13, "NASCAR"=>14,"CH_HOC"=>15,"NFE"=>16,"NCAAW"=>17,"CFL"=>18); ========================================== what i am doing is querying a db and would like to replace the value with that from the array. eg.( $cols['league'] has the value of (NFE) i would like to sort through the array to replace (NFE) with the corresponding value which is (16) i can do this using the [ if , elseif, else ] but that would have my code to long. i am only looking for the shortest way out. Thanks in advance for any assistance.