Your right, and I have gotten it to work that way, but I wanted to see how it would be done if I was to use an array. I was trying to do something easy just so I could "see how it would be done" I guess you could say. Plus when I run the function, I want it to output the total price for all states in the array, and not have to call the function and pass it a state and amount for each state. Thanks for the reply. Jacob Bergman Network Technician Pullman School District #267 (509) 432-4012 jbergman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Jarrett Meyer [mailto:jmtmeyer@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:56 AM To: PHP Windows List Subject: Re: Arrays past to functions You don't really need an array here. function ComputeSalesTax($Amt, $State) { switch ($State) { case "CA": $tax = 1.05; break; case "WA": $tax = 1.07; break; // etc. default: $tax = false; } if ($tax != false) { return ($Amt * $tax); } else { die("State not found!"); // or some other graceful method... } } ComputeSalesTax(2000, "CA"); // returns 2100 ComputeSalesTax(2000, "LA"); // fails -- Jarrett M. T. Meyer http://jarrettmeyer.blogspot.com http://www.jarrettmeyer.com ----- Original Message ---- From: Jacob Bergman <jbergman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 11:46:19 AM Subject: Arrays past to functions Hello all, I am learning about passing arrays to functions, and am trying to create a function that will display a total amount for a price for several states. Say using CA, WA, and OR, and setting there tax rates at, whatever, say 5%, 7%, and 8% respectively. I want a function I can pass the array of states, and tax rates to that will display the total amount (amount + tax) of say a $1500 purchase. I am trying to use a switch statement to accomplish this, but I think I may be in over my head trying to do this with what I have learned so far... Here is the code I have so far I get 0 every time I run it, try not to laugh... :-) Thanks guys. $State = array ("CA" , "WA" , "OR"); function compute_salestax ($Amount , $State) { switch ($State) { case "CA" : $Rate = "1.05"; break; case "WA" : $Rate = "1.07"; break; case "OR" : $Rate = "1.08"; break; } global $Rate; $Truetax = ($Amount * $Rate); echo "$Truetax <br />"; } $Amount = 1500; compute_salestax($Amount , $State); Jacob Bergman Network Technician Pullman School District #267 (509) 432-4012 jbergman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
