Category5 Technology TV - Beginner-to-Intermediate PHP Part 1: The Magic of the PHP Array

Beginner-to-Intermediate PHP Part 1: The Magic of the PHP Array

S05E25
March 13, 2012

Robbie and Rachel teach you how to create a PHP array and use foreach() to loop through the array and output images to the browser window.

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Creating our first PHP array.{code} $v=0; $images[$v]['file'] = 'images/1.jpg'; $images[$v]['description'] = 'Image 1'; $v++; $images[$v]['file'] = 'images/2.jpg'; $v++; $images[$v]['file'] = 'images/3.jpg'; $v++; $images[$v]['file'] = 'images/4.jpg'; $v++; print_r($images); {/code}
Outputting our array by looping through the array and outputting the images to the browser, and displaying the description if there is one.{code}foreach ($images as $value) { echo ''; echo '
'; if (isset($value['description'])) echo $value['description']; echo '

'; }{/code}
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