What is the best way to get the median value from an array of integers? I have a very long form, which is essentially the same mini-form (group of fields) repeated a number of times with different names (simple though, I use a 'for' loop to give each field a number that corresponds to which mini-form it belongs to).
This was an efficient way for me to let the user specify how many mini-forms they need to fill out for their purposes, because it might not always be the same. HOWEVER... at the end of the day, when they are done filling out this long form full of groups of inputs, it needs to be added to a database. That's the easy part. The hard part is that I need to echo a value back to the user -- and this value corresponds to the median of all the values in field X. Wait, this is too hard to explain. Let me simplify: The web page features ten listboxes, each of which contains the same options. Let's say that you can choose A, B, C, D, or E from each listbox. Submit the form, run some code to figure out which was most-frequently selected, and then display that value on the next page. That's all I really want to do, but I'm pretty bad at math -- I could enter all the values into an array and run some kind of averaging code on them, but the problem is that I don't want an "average", I need the "most-chosen" value. Thanks if you have any advice. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
