why does it return the word ARRAY and not what i want ?

[ricky spires]

hello.

 

im trying to get some results from a db and all i keep getting is the word ARRAY ??

 

I want to get all the placeholders that relate to a page.

 

so if pageID=1 has place holder 1, place holder 2 and place holder 3 it will return 1, 2, 3  etc...

 

in the db i have

 

id    pageID    phNumber

1        1          1

2        1          2

3        1          3

etc..

 

 

this is the code i have

 

public function find_placeholders($pageID=0){

	$sql = "SELECT phNumber FROM ".self::$table_name." WHERE pages_id=".$pageID."";
	$result_array = self::find_by_sql($sql);
	return $result_array;
}

 

and on the page i have..

 

<?php echo Placeholders::find_placeholders($pageID); ?>

 

all i get is

Array

 

 

once i solve this problem i will want to use each number in the array to find the content for each.

so if i get 1,2,3

 

i will try and do some thing like.

foreach placeholder number echo elements

 

but 1 step at a time

 

thanks

for any help

 

rick

[btellez]

...because you are trying to echo an array.

 

To get something more meaningful, try print_r or var_dump

<?php print_r(Placeholders::find_placeholders($pageID)); ?>

OR

<?php var_dump(Placeholders::find_placeholders($pageID));>