2009/6/18 PJ <af.gour...@videotron.ca>:
> Martin Scotta wrote:
>> It is a sintax error
>>
>> if (in_array($ex, $selected)   <--- missing )
>> echo "<br />yes";
>> else echo "<br />no";
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:13 AM, PJ <af.gour...@videotron.ca
>> <mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>     Ford, Mike wrote:
>>     > On 17 June 2009 14:30, PJ advised:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >> For the moment, I am trying to resolve the problem of
>>     >> extracting a value
>>     >> from a string returned by a query. I thought that in_array()
>>     would do
>>     >> it, but the tests I have run on it are 100% negative. The only
>>     thing I
>>     >> have not used in the tests is third parameter bool $strict
>>     which only
>>     >> affects case-sensitivity if the $needle is a string.
>>     >>
>>     >
>>     > $strict has nothing whatsoever at all in any way to do with case
>>     > sensitivity -- $strict controls whether the values are compared
>>     using
>>     > equality (==) or identity (===) tests. As is stated quite
>>     clearly on the
>>     > manual page, in_array() is always case-sensitive.
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >>  This leads me to
>>     >> believe that in_array() is either inappropriately defined in
>>     >> the manual
>>     >> and not effective on associative arrays
>>     >>
>>     >
>>     > Complete rubbish -- the in_array() manual page is excellent and
>>     totally
>>     > accurate, complete with 3 working examples.
>>     >
>>     >
>>     I would really like to understand why my attempts to reproduce the
>>     first
>>     example just did not work.
>>     Note also that the examples do not show in_array($string, $array)
>>     My array was Array ([0]=>6[1]=>14....), so when I tried if
>>     (in_array($string, $array) , echo $string did not return 14 as I had
>>     expected; neither did if(in_array("14", $array) ... nor
>>     if(in_array(14,
>>     $array). It still does not... actually, the screen goes blank.
>>     So, what am I doing wrong?
>>     Here's what is not working... I'm trying to reproduce the example from
>>     php.net <http://php.net>:
>>
>>     $selected = array();
>>     if ( ( $results = mysql_query($sql, $db) ) ) {
>>      while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results) ) {
>>        $selected[] = $row['id'];
>>        }
>>      }
>>     print_r($selected);
>>     $ex = 14;
>>     if (in_array($ex, $selected)
>>     echo "<br />yes";
>>     else echo "<br />no";
>>
>>     Regardless if I put 14 into $ex or "14" or '14' or even if I put
>>     the 14
>>     instead of the $ex into the if line, I get a blank screen. It seems tp
>>     me, from what I see in the manual that this should work... or am I
>>     supposed to know something that is not clear in the examples... ?
>>
>>
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>>
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>> Martin Scotta
> Actually, we have to call it a typo because i fixed that and the results
> are exactly the same = blank screen. :-(

If you're getting a blank screen instead of an error message I highly
recommend turning display_errors on and setting error_reporting to
E_ALL in you dev php.ini - that way you'll actually see error messages
rather than having to hunt through the code by hand.

-Stuart

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