Wildcards - Looking Up a Range of Similar Fields?

Hi, Jason -

I'm trying to refine a system for choosing which margin widgets appear on a page.

Currently, when a user creates a category page he can choose 6 widgets to appear in the margin. He/she does this by means of 6 identical drop-down menus listing the available widgets.

So,

field1 might equal widget5

field2 might equal widget3

field3 might equal widget8

field4 might equal widget1

and so on...

Each selection returns a number - which forms an array. When the page is called, I use some very basic code to pull the chosen widgets into the margin of the page.

It's basic and rather clunky - but does the job!

(NB: Initially, instead of 6 lists, I used just one multi-select menu. It was a lot cleaner but it didn't allow you to manipulate the widget order.)

I posted my question because I thought I might learn something new about constructing arrays. It seemed even more clunky to have to list each field in the array code. I just wondered if there was a smarter way of doing it?

:0)

Perch

Hey,

You could use a loop and an if to get all fields that start with 'field'. Something like:

foreach($record[0] as $key => $value) {
if(substr($key,0,5) == 'field') {
$myArray[] = $value
}
}

Hope that helps,
Robin

Hi, Robin -

Brilliant! Just what I was hoping for.

Thanks,

:0)

Perch