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Hey guys im trying to insert these values from this array into the distance function I made and then it turns it into a string. Took me like 8 hours of problem solving just to find out this wasnt working. really could use some help with this. $arr is the array

 


Array ( [0] => Array ( [b_x] => 85 [b_y] => 71 ) [1] => Array ( [b_x] => 436 [b_y] => 130 )

$b_x = 295;
$b_y = 163;
	foreach($arr as $db) {

			$db_x = $db['b_x'];
			$db_y = $db['b_y'];

			$distance .= distance($b_x,$b_y,$db_y,$db_x) . "-";
		}

end result is suppose to look like $distance-$distance-$distance and so forth

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Not sure if this gets you any closer to what you're looking for.

<?php
$arr=array(
0 => Array ( 'b_x' => 85, 'b_y' => 71 ), 
1 => Array ( 'b_x' => 436, 'b_y' => 130 )
);

$b_x = 295;
$b_y = 163;	
$distance="";
foreach($arr as $db) {
$db_x = $db['b_x'];	
$db_y = $db['b_y'];	
$distance .= "distance"."($b_x,$b_y,$db_y,$db_x)" . "-";	
}
echo "$distance";
?>

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thanks for the responce Drummin

 

What i did was i just pasted what the Print_r was off the array so you would have an idea what the array looks like.

 

 

 

$db_y = $db['b_y'];

 

if I echo  $db_y i get the return of 1

 

This isnt reading the array

$db_x = $db['b_x'];

$db_y = $db['b_y'];

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All that I saw was missing was the start the variable $distance with.

$distance="";

And as I don't see the code for the function "distance" I just modified the line so I could see the results which echoed out.

distance(295,163,71,85)-distance(295,163,130,436)- 

So as far as I can see, each array value is being called.

 

Not sure why you see the one.  I'll look more.

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OMG I figured out my problem, thanks alot drummin

 

There was nothing wrong with me fliping through the array like you said.

 

the db_x and db_y was backwards the x needed to go first. See I was getting the wrong math back from the function and i cant believe i didnt notice that after 12 hours of deep problem solving omg. I was about to go insane cause i knew nothing was wrong

 

$distance .= distance($b_x,$b_y,$db_x,$db_y) . "-";

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Also i had this all wraped in a function so to echo i had to pass it into a list of returns. so i should of tossed the function to the side really echo everything good. Cause for some reason I couldnt echo distance out side the function it was showing up as 1. not sure what the deal is with that.

 

 

Edit: ohhh its cause im trying to return a string using array() then list(). and the string didnt have quotes around it.

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