mickyvelly

solved it!!! function countVotes($haystack, $countAnswers, $needles, $countFunction) { //$haystack is the array where we store all the posible answers (array keys must begin from 0) //$countAnswers is the variable were we store the total amount of votes //$needles is the array with only 1 vote (but it can contain multiple answers (beware that the answers must correspond with the $haystack)) //$countFunction is the amount of times the function has been called, so the if statement knows when to unset the session variable $p = 0; // count for while loop while($p < count($needles)) {//loop while there are new needles if(is_array($needles)) {//if the needle is an array if(in_array($needles[$p], $haystack)) {//check if the needle is in the array $_SESSION['count'][$needles[$p]]++; } } else {//if the needle is not an array if(in_array($needles, $haystack)) {//check if the needle is in the array $_SESSION['count'][$needles]++; } } $p++; } if($countFunction == ($countAnswers-1)) {//if there is no new needle anymore, copy the session data to a safe variable which we will return and delete the session data $count = $_SESSION['count']; unset($_SESSION['count']); } return $count;//return the array with the counted votes }function countVotes($haystack, $countAnswers, $needles, $countFunction) { $p = 0; // count for while loop while($p < count($needles)) {//loop while there are new needles if(is_array($needles)) {//if the needle is an array if(in_array($needles[$p], $haystack)) {//check if the needle is in the array $_SESSION['count'][$needles[$p]]++; } } else {//if the needle is not an array if(in_array($needles, $haystack)) {//check if the needle is in the array $_SESSION['count'][$needles]++; } } $p++; } if($countFunction == ($countAnswers-1)) {//if there is no new needle anymore, copy the session data to a safe variable which we will return and delete the session data $count = $_SESSION['count']; unset($_SESSION['count']); } return $count;//return the array with the counted votes } sorry guys for solving the problem myself... thanks anyways

Hey all, i have a problem; i have 2 arrays: $haystack //contains all posible answers in the poll, it contains dates for possible meetings Array ( [0] => 12-02-2011 [1] => 13-02-2011 [2] => 14-02-2011 [3] => 15-02-2011 ) $needles //contains the answers the user clicked Array ( [0] => 12-02-2011 [1] => 13-02-2011 ) i have about 10 entries simulated and i want to count the corresponding dates into another array so: Array ( [0] => 5 [1] => 3 [2] => 1 [3] => 1 ) keep in mind that the users can give multiple answers