thanks dobromir,
unfortunately that doesnt seem to work ...
although looking at the php manual you seem to be on the right track..
could the way the textfield is parsed & passed back affect the array?
cheers!
brendan
Dobromir Velev wrote:
> Hi,
> I think you can use the eval() function to execute the stored info. The code
> will look something like this
> $res=mysql_query(...)
> eval($row_from_query);
>
> If you want to change the name of the array you could use
> eval(str_replace("$array","$newarray",$row_from_query));
>
> HTH
> Dobromir Velev
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brendan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thursday, September 13, 2001 2:20 PM
> Subject: [PHP-DB] array in db field -> actual array
>
>
>
>>hi,
>>i am currently scouring the web for a solution to this but thought i
>>would try here as well ..
>>
>>i have a text field in a mysql database
>>the textfield contains an array written out as
>>//--------------------
>>$array[0][1]="one";
>>$array[0][2]="two";
>>$array[0][3]="thre";
>>$array[1][1]="four";
>>$array[2][1]="five";
>>//--------------------
>>
>>now i need to extract this from the db .. simple
>>and use it as an array for a function .. not as simple as i thought it
>>would be
>>
>>
>>ie
>>
>>$newarray =mysqlquery('etc','etc','etc')
>>and $newarray should be
>>$newarray[0][1]="one";
>>$newarray[0][2]="two";
>>$newarray[0][3]="thre";
>>$newarray[1][1]="four";
>>$newarray[2][1]="five";
>>
>>elp?
>>
>>cheers
>>brendan
>>
>>
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