techin4 Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Hi, I am a beginner with php and I am having a hard time understanding a section in my code. The part I dont get is why we have to minus 1 from the number being passed into the array. For example, $FaceNamePlural[$die1-1] I tried looking at it over and over but I'm still very confused. Can anyone help me on this...Thanks. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <?php $FaceNameSingular = array("one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six"); $FaceNamePlural = array("ones", "twos", "threes", "fours", "fives", "sixs"); function CheckForDoubles($die1, $die2) { global $FaceNameSingular; global $FaceNamePlural; if($die1 == $die2) // doubles echo "The roll was double ", $FaceNamePlural[$die1-1], "<br />"; if($die1 != $die2) //not doubles echo "The roll was a ", $FaceNameSingular[$die1-1], " and a ", $FaceNameSingular[$die2-1], ".<br />"; } function DisplayScoreText($Score) { if($Score == 2) echo "you roll snake eyes! <br />"; if($Score == 3) echo "you roll loose duece! <br />"; if($Score == 5) echo "you roll fever five! <br />"; if($Score == 7) echo "you roll natural! <br />"; if($Score == 9) echo "you roll nina! <br />"; if($Score == 11) echo "you roll yo! <br />"; if($Score == 12) echo "you roll boxcars! <br />"; } $dice = array(); $dice[0] = rand(1,6); $dice[1] = rand(1,6); $Score = $dice[0] + $dice[1] ; echo "<p>"; echo "The total score for the roll was $Score . <br />"; CheckForDoubles($dice[0],$dice[1]); DisplayScoreText($Score); echo "</p>"; ?> </body> </html> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/228078-help-understanding-why-we-minus-from-the-the-argument-being-passed-in/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Fedorov Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Hi, probably because the parameters $die are supposed to start counting from 1. In php the arrays starts from 0, so the first element is [0 ], the second is [1] etc.. So if you pass the argument 2 meaning "the 2th element" you should do $array[2-1] Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/228078-help-understanding-why-we-minus-from-the-the-argument-being-passed-in/#findComment-1176116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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