IT Answers » associative array http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:09:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Parsing error: Declare and initialize an associative array http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/parsing-error-declare-and-initialize-an-associative-array/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/parsing-error-declare-and-initialize-an-associative-array/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:24:58 +0000 PatOswalt Used an HTML form to create a table.  Saved the data using 

<html>
    <!--Patricia Oswalt - IT250 Unit 4 Assignment-->
    
    <head>
        <title>Save Directory</title>
    </head>
     
    <body>

        <?php
        
        //initializing the variables
        $LastName = ($_POST['LastName']);
        $FirstName = ($_POST['FirstName']);
        $StreetAdd = ($_POST['StreetAdd']);
        $City = ($_POST['City']);
        $State = ($_POST['State']);
        $ZipCode = ($_POST['ZipCode']);
        $PhoneNum = ("(" . $_POST['AreaCode'] . ")" . $_POST['Prefix'] . "-" . $_POST['LineNum']);
            
        //confirming that all variables will contain values
        if (empty($LastName) ||
            empty($FirstName) ||
            empty($StreetAdd) ||
            empty($City) ||
            empty($State) ||
            empty($ZipCode) ||
            empty($PhoneNum))
            echo "<p>You must completely fill out the form.  Please use your browser's Back button to return to the form.</p>";

        else 
        //creating, writing and saving to the text file.
        $NewContact = 'contactlist.txt';
        $Contact = fopen($NewContact, 'a+');
        $output = "$LastName, $FirstName, $StreetAdd, $City, $State, $ZipCode, $PhoneNum rn";
        echo "New Contact Saved Successfully!";
        fwrite($Contact, $output);
        fclose($Contact);

        ?>

    <p><a href="InputTelephone.html">Add New Listing</a></p>
    <p><a href="contactlist.txt">Retrieve Contact List</a></p>

    </body>

</html>

The above works fine.  Now I have to be able to sort the data in a table.

This is my code so far.

<html>
    <!--Patricia Oswalt - IT250 Unit 5 Assignment-->
    
    <head>
        <title>Contact Table</title>
    </head>
     
    <body>

    <?php
    //opening the file for reading
    $fp = fopen('contactlist.txt', 'r');
    if(!$fp) die ("Cannot open the file");
    
    //Declare and initialize an associative array

    $Listing = array();
    $Listing[$Name] = $LastName, $FirstName;
    $Listing[$Number] = $PhoneNum;

//Is the above syntax correct to create an associative array named $Listing?

  echo "<table border='1'>";
  echo "<tr>";
  echo "<th>Name</th>";
  echo "<th>Phone Number</th>";
  echo "</tr>";
  
      //Next we want to sort $Listing by the $LastName
    ksort($Listing);

    //Then to print the sorted table. (using the example in Unit 5’s slide show)
        foreach($Listing as $Name => $Number)
        {
            echo "<tr>";
            echo "<td>$Name</td>";
            echo "<td>$Number</td><br>";
            echo "</tr>";
        }
        echo "</table>";
    ?>

    <p><a href="InputTelephone.html">Add New Listing</a></p>
    <p><a href="contactlist.txt">Retrieve Contact List</a></p>
    
    </body>

</html>

I think my only problem is creating the associative array.  Can anyone look it over and tell me if they see any problems?  This project is already a week behind and I can’t figure out where I’m going wrong.

Looking over it right now, I think I made need to put an fclose statement somewhere as well.

Thanks in advance!  Patricia

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