[FX.php List] Can't locate value in array

[Steve Winter]

Hi all,

 

I conduct a search for a particular record in my database, which results in
one found record (the way this system works, it can only find one record,
and it will always find one record, but that’s by-the-by). One of the db
fields is called Country, thus I end up with;

 

$studentData['data'][$studentKey]['Country'][0]

 

Which will usually contain the name of a country. I now need to convert this
to the ISO 3309 country code. I already use these elsewhere, when I need to
find the country from the code, so I have an array $countryList, of the
form;

 

$countryList = array ("AF" => "Afghanistan",

"AL" => "Albania",

"DZ" => "Algeria",

"AS" => "American Samoa",

"AD" => "Andorra",

etc...

 

Thus what I want to do is;

 

              if(in_array($countryCode,
$studentData['data'][$studentKey]['Country'][0])) {

                $thisCountry = current(array_keys($countryList,
$studentData['data'][$studentKey]['Country'][0]));

 

All good you’d think... well the answer is sort of, when I make the call to
the db, it doesn’t work... if I hard-code a value into the country field it
does...

 

For example, ff I do;

 

echo $studentData['data'][$studentKey]['Country'][0];

 

Then I see the country that I expect to (eg France), but the in_array does
not work.

 

If I insert the line;

 

            $studentData['data'][$studentKey]['Country'][0] = ‘France’;

 

Then it is found...

 

Anyone got any idea what’s going on here...? this is seriously doing my head
in...!!

 

Cheers

Steve

 


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