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

[Chris Hansen]

Steve,

Two thoughts:

1) I don't see $countryCode defined anywhere;
2) From looking at http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.in-array.php  
I'm wondering if your parameters in in_array() aren't in the wrong  
order...

--Chris

On Jul 3, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Steve Winter wrote:

> 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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