On 7/24/07, Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyLine) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Great question...
I just spent some time to figure it out and came up with a cool way!
<?php
$set = array( 'vegetable'=>'lettuce', 'fruit'=>'coconut',
'bean'=>'chickpea',
'grain'=>'corn' );
$set = array_flip($set);
$set['chickpea'] = 'legume';
$set = array_flip($set);
/*
$set2 = array_slice($set, -2, 1);
$set2 = array_flip($set2);
$set['chickpea
*/
print_r($set);
Good one! Er, except, it breaks if you have duplicate values in the array.
Try it with $set = array( 'vegetable'=>'tomato', 'fruit'=>'tomato',
'bean'=>'chickpea', 'grain'=>'corn' );
Oh well. I think I'll have to create a map and use that to keep the
array in order:
$set = array( 'vegetable'=>'tomato', 'fruit'=>'tomato',
'bean'=>'chickpea', 'grain'=>'corn' );
$map = array_keys( $set );
$map['bean'] = 'legume';
$set['legume'] = $set['bean'];
unset( $set['bean'] );
foreach ( $map AS $orig_key=>$key ) {
print $set[ $key ]."<br>";
}
As Tim Gales is fond of saying, "Any problem in computer science can
be solved with another layer of indirection."
--
Chris Snyder
http://chxo.com/
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