creating assoiated array in php

[keramatali]

I have the following code that creates the category and associate link for each category. I like to know how can I have the category name different than the keywords for each category. For example I like to search for ‘superman’ but like to call the link ‘superman movie’

Any help will be greatly appreciated

thanks

<?
$categories =
array('Superman', 'Batman', 'Iron Man', 'Incredible Hulk'); ?>
<h2>Categories:</h2> 

<? foreach ($categories as $category) { ?> 

  <a
href="/category.php?psps_search=<?= urlencode($category) ?>"><?= $category ?></a><br/>

[NateBaldwin · Accepted solution]

Assuming it's not as simple as adding the string " Movie" after each search term, you could make a nested associative array that stores both bits of information under the appropriate key (without getting a database or XML file involved). Something like:

<?php

$categories = array(

array('search'=>'Superman', 'link'=>'Superman Movie'),

array('search'=>'Batman', 'link'=>'Batman Movie'),

array('search'=>'Iron Man', 'link'=>'Iron Man Movie'),

array('search'=>'Incredible Hulk', 'link'=>'Incredible Hulk Movie')

);

?>

<?php foreach ($categories as $category) { ?>

<a href="/category.php?psps_search=<?= urlencode($category['search']) ?>">

<?= $category['link'] ?>

</a><br/>

<?php } ?>

[keramatali]

Dear Mr Baldwin

Thank you for this very precise info. I have created two groups follwing your suggestion: one for category and one for brandI just wanted to know if i like to have a heading for the appropriate link( ie if it is a brand the heading would be the given brand or if it is category than the heading will be given category). i tried the following . and i am sure there is something i am missing :

<?php if ($psps_search=urlencode($category['search'])) echo $category['link']; elseif ($psps_search=urlencode($brand['search'])) echo $brand['link'];?>

psps_search is the search parameter

thanks

[Guest]

<?php
$categories = array(
     array('search'=>'Superman', 'link'=>'Superman Movie'),
     array('search'=>'Batman', 'link'=>'Batman Movie'),
     array('search'=>'Iron Man', 'link'=>'Iron Man Movie'),
     array('search'=>'Incredible Hulk', 'link'=>'Incredible Hulk Movie')
);
foreach($categories as $category){
     $psps_search = urlencode($category['search']);
     echo $category['link'];
}

Didn't you forget the foreach statement?

[NateBaldwin]

Assuming it is inside the foreach statement, looks like you might have the wrong operator in there  - the single = (assignment operator) should be a double equal sign (comparison operator). So, if I'm reading that right, change this:

<?php if ($psps_search=urlencode($category['search'])) echo $category['link']; elseif ($psps_search=urlencode($brand['search'])) echo $brand['link'];?>

to this:

<?php if ($psps_search==urlencode($category['search'])) echo $category['link']; elseif ($psps_search==urlencode($brand['search'])) echo $brand['link'];?>

[keramatali]

Thank you so much for your response.

<?php if ($psps_search=urlencode($category['search'])) echo $category['link']; elseif ($psps_search=urlencode($brand['search'])) echo $brand['link'];?>

With this I was getting the last category(no matter what i entered in psps_search) . I actually did not have

foreach statement. I have added foreach as follow and now get all the

categories in the page(instead of one).I did the code as cody rob suggested :

foreach($categories as $category){

$psps_search = urlencode($category['search']);

echo $category['link'];

}

Also i can just add if statement before each foreach statement so that category and brand will get called as appropriate.

thanks for your help