Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Peter H. Coffin" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: Names of URL Parameters Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:43:19 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <1888520.Oct5B3EuLq@PointedEars.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="le/2G4+BNpieVhQI6uJ2Lw"; logging-data="1024"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+CP3uqjn/zFMfVrRhDeyPg" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (OpenBSD) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5bsVyvC0dygFRmwF1El2nf/4RLk= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.php:3192 On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:27:18 -0400, eBob.com wrote: > Yes, of course. Thank you PointedEars and Natural Philosopher. > Although I have done a lot of programming in many different languages, > I am brand new to PHP, and this was my first experience of any kind > with arrays. It just wasn't clicking that 'phone' (in my example) was > a subscript. I don't think I've used a language before in which plain > ol' arrays can have character string "subscripts". Other languages probably just called them "hashes" instead. The difference is largely semantics, in either direction. -- Every fleeting thought you've ever had in your life, no matter how bizarre, is someone's lifelong obsession. And he has a website. -- Skif's Internet Theorem