Matt_C Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Please ignore the fact i have a form etc in my class and it submits to the class, what i am stuck on is finding the value from my associative array with the key that passed in the $_POST request. I have looked in the php manual and looked at other fixes people have posted online but something is not right. Easy fix for a seasoned developer i am sure, please help if you have a min. <?php class World { public $world_countries = array( "GB" => "United Kingdom", "US" => "United States", "AF" => "Afghanistan", "AL" => "Albania", "DZ" => "Algeria", "AS" => "American Samoa", "AD" => "Andorra", "AO" => "Angola", "AI" => "Anguilla", "AQ" => "Antarctica", "AG" => "Antigua And Barbuda", "AR" => "Argentina", "AM" => "Armenia", "AW" => "Aruba", "AU" => "Australia", "AT" => "Austria", "AZ" => "Azerbaijan", "BS" => "Bahamas", "BH" => "Bahrain", "BD" => "Bangladesh", "BB" => "Barbados", "BY" => "Belarus", "BE" => "Belgium", "BZ" => "Belize", "BJ" => "Benin", "BM" => "Bermuda", "BT" => "Bhutan", "BO" => "Bolivia", "BA" => "Bosnia And Herzegowina", "BW" => "Botswana", "BV" => "Bouvet Island", "BR" => "Brazil", "IO" => "British Indian Ocean Territory", "BN" => "Brunei Darussalam", "BG" => "Bulgaria", "BF" => "Burkina Faso", "BI" => "Burundi", "KH" => "Cambodia", "CM" => "Cameroon", "CA" => "Canada", "CV" => "Cape Verde", "KY" => "Cayman Islands", "CF" => "Central African Republic", "TD" => "Chad", "CL" => "Chile", "CN" => "China", "CX" => "Christmas Island", "CC" => "Cocos (Keeling) Islands", "CO" => "Colombia", "KM" => "Comoros", "CG" => "Congo", "CD" => "Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The", "CK" => "Cook Islands", "CR" => "Costa Rica", "CI" => "Cote D'Ivoire", "HR" => "Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)", "CU" => "Cuba", "CY" => "Cyprus", "CZ" => "Czech Republic", "DK" => "Denmark", "DJ" => "Djibouti", "DM" => "Dominica", "DO" => "Dominican Republic", "TP" => "East Timor", "EC" => "Ecuador", "EG" => "Egypt", "SV" => "El Salvador", "GQ" => "Equatorial Guinea", "ER" => "Eritrea", "EE" => "Estonia", "ET" => "Ethiopia", "FK" => "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)", "FO" => "Faroe Islands", "FJ" => "Fiji", "FI" => "Finland", "FR" => "France", "FX" => "France, Metropolitan", "GF" => "French Guiana", "PF" => "French Polynesia", "TF" => "French Southern Territories", "GA" => "Gabon", "GM" => "Gambia", "GE" => "Georgia", "DE" => "Germany", "GH" => "Ghana", "GI" => "Gibraltar", "GR" => "Greece", "GL" => "Greenland", "GD" => "Grenada", "GP" => "Guadeloupe", "GU" => "Guam", "GT" => "Guatemala", "GN" => "Guinea", "GW" => "Guinea-Bissau", "GY" => "Guyana", "HT" => "Haiti", "HM" => "Heard And Mc Donald Islands", "VA" => "Holy See (Vatican City State)", "HN" => "Honduras", "HK" => "Hong Kong", "HU" => "Hungary", "IS" => "Iceland", "IN" => "India", "ID" => "Indonesia", "IR" => "Iran (Islamic Republic Of)", "IQ" => "Iraq", "IE" => "Ireland", "IL" => "Israel", "IT" => "Italy", "JM" => "Jamaica", "JP" => "Japan", "JO" => "Jordan", "KZ" => "Kazakhstan", "KE" => "Kenya", "KI" => "Kiribati", "KP" => "Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of", "KR" => "Korea, Republic Of", "KW" => "Kuwait", "KG" => "Kyrgyzstan", "LA" => "Lao People's Democratic Republic", "LV" => "Latvia", "LB" => "Lebanon", "LS" => "Lesotho", "LR" => "Liberia", "LY" => "Libyan Arab Jamahiriya", "LI" => "Liechtenstein", "LT" => "Lithuania", "LU" => "Luxembourg", "MO" => "Macau", "MK" => "Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic Of", "MG" => "Madagascar", "MW" => "Malawi", "MY" => "Malaysia", "MV" => "Maldives", "ML" => "Mali", "MT" => "Malta", "MH" => "Marshall Islands", "MQ" => "Martinique", "MR" => "Mauritania", "MU" => "Mauritius", "YT" => "Mayotte", "MX" => "Mexico", "FM" => "Micronesia, Federated States Of", "MD" => "Moldova, Republic Of", "MC" => "Monaco", "MN" => "Mongolia", "MS" => "Montserrat", "MA" => "Morocco", "MZ" => "Mozambique", "MM" => "Myanmar", "NA" => "Namibia", "NR" => "Nauru", "NP" => "Nepal", "NL" => "Netherlands", "AN" => "Netherlands Antilles", "NC" => "New Caledonia", "NZ" => "New Zealand", "NI" => "Nicaragua", "NE" => "Niger", "NG" => "Nigeria", "NU" => "Niue", "NF" => "Norfolk Island", "MP" => "Northern Mariana Islands", "NO" => "Norway", "OM" => "Oman", "PK" => "Pakistan", "PW" => "Palau", "PA" => "Panama", "PG" => "Papua New Guinea", "PY" => "Paraguay", "PE" => "Peru", "PH" => "Philippines", "PN" => "Pitcairn", "PL" => "Poland", "PT" => "Portugal", "PR" => "Puerto Rico", "QA" => "Qatar", "RE" => "Reunion", "RO" => "Romania", "RU" => "Russian Federation", "RW" => "Rwanda", "KN" => "Saint Kitts And Nevis", "LC" => "Saint Lucia", "VC" => "Saint Vincent And The Grenadines", "WS" => "Samoa", "SM" => "San Marino", "ST" => "Sao Tome And Principe", "SA" => "Saudi Arabia", "SN" => "Senegal", "SC" => "Seychelles", "SL" => "Sierra Leone", "SG" => "Singapore", "SK" => "Slovakia (Slovak Republic)", "SI" => "Slovenia", "SB" => "Solomon Islands", "SO" => "Somalia", "ZA" => "South Africa", "GS" => "South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands", "ES" => "Spain", "LK" => "Sri Lanka", "SH" => "St. Helena", "PM" => "St. Pierre And Miquelon", "SD" => "Sudan", "SR" => "Suriname", "SJ" => "Svalbard And Jan Mayen Islands", "SZ" => "Swaziland", "SE" => "Sweden", "CH" => "Switzerland", "SY" => "Syrian Arab Republic", "TW" => "Taiwan", "TJ" => "Tajikistan", "TZ" => "Tanzania, United Republic Of", "TH" => "Thailand", "TG" => "Togo", "TK" => "Tokelau", "TO" => "Tonga", "TT" => "Trinidad And Tobago", "TN" => "Tunisia", "TR" => "Turkey", "TM" => "Turkmenistan", "TC" => "Turks And Caicos Islands", "TV" => "Tuvalu", "UG" => "Uganda", "UA" => "Ukraine", "AE" => "United Arab Emirates", "UM" => "United States Minor Outlying Islands", "UY" => "Uruguay", "UZ" => "Uzbekistan", "VU" => "Vanuatu", "VE" => "Venezuela", "VN" => "Viet Nam", "VG" => "Virgin Islands (British)", "VI" => "Virgin Islands (U.S.)", "WF" => "Wallis And Futuna Islands", "EH" => "Western Sahara", "YE" => "Yemen", "YU" => "Yugoslavia", "ZM" => "Zambia", "ZW" => "Zimbabwe" ); public function display_countries() { asort($this->world_countriess); foreach ($this->world_countries as $key => $value) { echo $key . ' > <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.se/?gws_rd=cr#fp=bac353e51a633d27&q=' . $value . '">' . $value . '</a><br>'; } } public function eeti_world_options($args) { asort($this->world_countries); $outout = '<select name="country">'; foreach ($this->world_countries as $key => $value) { if ($this->$value == $args) { $outout .= '<option value="' . $key . '" selected>' . $value . '</option>'; } else { $outout .= '<option value="' . $key . '">' . $value . '</option>'; } } $outout .= '</select>'; return $outout; } } ?> <?php $world = new World(); if (isset($_POST['submit'])) { } ?> <form method="post" action="class-world.php"> <?php echo $world->eeti_world_options('Uganda'); ?> <input type="submit" name="submit"> </form> Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281436-simple-fix-i-am-sure-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Assuming all of your HTML markup is valid: Â $selectedCountryName = $world_countries[$_POST['country']]; Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281436-simple-fix-i-am-sure-please-help/#findComment-1446155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_C Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 Hi Psycho, Â Thank you for getting back to me. Â Yes, it is all valid. I have no problem assigning it to a variable, i just can't figure out how to search the $world_countries array using $selectedCountryName and return the value for use/output. Because $_POST value will be the key (abbreviation)...and i want to out put the value (Country name) found in the $world_countries array. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281436-simple-fix-i-am-sure-please-help/#findComment-1446157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gristoi Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 (edited) <?php class World { private $chosenCountry; public $world_countries = array( "GB" => "United Kingdom", "US" => "United States", "AF" => "Afghanistan", "AL" => "Albania", "DZ" => "Algeria", "AS" => "American Samoa", "AD" => "Andorra", "AO" => "Angola", "AI" => "Anguilla", "AQ" => "Antarctica", "AG" => "Antigua And Barbuda", "AR" => "Argentina", "AM" => "Armenia", "AW" => "Aruba", "AU" => "Australia", "AT" => "Austria", "AZ" => "Azerbaijan", "BS" => "Bahamas", "BH" => "Bahrain", "BD" => "Bangladesh", "BB" => "Barbados", "BY" => "Belarus", "BE" => "Belgium", "BZ" => "Belize", "BJ" => "Benin", "BM" => "Bermuda", "BT" => "Bhutan", "BO" => "Bolivia", "BA" => "Bosnia And Herzegowina", "BW" => "Botswana", "BV" => "Bouvet Island", "BR" => "Brazil", "IO" => "British Indian Ocean Territory", "BN" => "Brunei Darussalam", "BG" => "Bulgaria", "BF" => "Burkina Faso", "BI" => "Burundi", "KH" => "Cambodia", "CM" => "Cameroon", "CA" => "Canada", "CV" => "Cape Verde", "KY" => "Cayman Islands", "CF" => "Central African Republic", "TD" => "Chad", "CL" => "Chile", "CN" => "China", "CX" => "Christmas Island", "CC" => "Cocos (Keeling) Islands", "CO" => "Colombia", "KM" => "Comoros", "CG" => "Congo", "CD" => "Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The", "CK" => "Cook Islands", "CR" => "Costa Rica", "CI" => "Cote D'Ivoire", "HR" => "Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)", "CU" => "Cuba", "CY" => "Cyprus", "CZ" => "Czech Republic", "DK" => "Denmark", "DJ" => "Djibouti", "DM" => "Dominica", "DO" => "Dominican Republic", "TP" => "East Timor", "EC" => "Ecuador", "EG" => "Egypt", "SV" => "El Salvador", "GQ" => "Equatorial Guinea", "ER" => "Eritrea", "EE" => "Estonia", "ET" => "Ethiopia", "FK" => "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)", "FO" => "Faroe Islands", "FJ" => "Fiji", "FI" => "Finland", "FR" => "France", "FX" => "France, Metropolitan", "GF" => "French Guiana", "PF" => "French Polynesia", "TF" => "French Southern Territories", "GA" => "Gabon", "GM" => "Gambia", "GE" => "Georgia", "DE" => "Germany", "GH" => "Ghana", "GI" => "Gibraltar", "GR" => "Greece", "GL" => "Greenland", "GD" => "Grenada", "GP" => "Guadeloupe", "GU" => "Guam", "GT" => "Guatemala", "GN" => "Guinea", "GW" => "Guinea-Bissau", "GY" => "Guyana", "HT" => "Haiti", "HM" => "Heard And Mc Donald Islands", "VA" => "Holy See (Vatican City State)", "HN" => "Honduras", "HK" => "Hong Kong", "HU" => "Hungary", "IS" => "Iceland", "IN" => "India", "ID" => "Indonesia", "IR" => "Iran (Islamic Republic Of)", "IQ" => "Iraq", "IE" => "Ireland", "IL" => "Israel", "IT" => "Italy", "JM" => "Jamaica", "JP" => "Japan", "JO" => "Jordan", "KZ" => "Kazakhstan", "KE" => "Kenya", "KI" => "Kiribati", "KP" => "Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of", "KR" => "Korea, Republic Of", "KW" => "Kuwait", "KG" => "Kyrgyzstan", "LA" => "Lao People's Democratic Republic", "LV" => "Latvia", "LB" => "Lebanon", "LS" => "Lesotho", "LR" => "Liberia", "LY" => "Libyan Arab Jamahiriya", "LI" => "Liechtenstein", "LT" => "Lithuania", "LU" => "Luxembourg", "MO" => "Macau", "MK" => "Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Republic Of", "MG" => "Madagascar", "MW" => "Malawi", "MY" => "Malaysia", "MV" => "Maldives", "ML" => "Mali", "MT" => "Malta", "MH" => "Marshall Islands", "MQ" => "Martinique", "MR" => "Mauritania", "MU" => "Mauritius", "YT" => "Mayotte", "MX" => "Mexico", "FM" => "Micronesia, Federated States Of", "MD" => "Moldova, Republic Of", "MC" => "Monaco", "MN" => "Mongolia", "MS" => "Montserrat", "MA" => "Morocco", "MZ" => "Mozambique", "MM" => "Myanmar", "NA" => "Namibia", "NR" => "Nauru", "NP" => "Nepal", "NL" => "Netherlands", "AN" => "Netherlands Antilles", "NC" => "New Caledonia", "NZ" => "New Zealand", "NI" => "Nicaragua", "NE" => "Niger", "NG" => "Nigeria", "NU" => "Niue", "NF" => "Norfolk Island", "MP" => "Northern Mariana Islands", "NO" => "Norway", "OM" => "Oman", "PK" => "Pakistan", "PW" => "Palau", "PA" => "Panama", "PG" => "Papua New Guinea", "PY" => "Paraguay", "PE" => "Peru", "PH" => "Philippines", "PN" => "Pitcairn", "PL" => "Poland", "PT" => "Portugal", "PR" => "Puerto Rico", "QA" => "Qatar", "RE" => "Reunion", "RO" => "Romania", "RU" => "Russian Federation", "RW" => "Rwanda", "KN" => "Saint Kitts And Nevis", "LC" => "Saint Lucia", "VC" => "Saint Vincent And The Grenadines", "WS" => "Samoa", "SM" => "San Marino", "ST" => "Sao Tome And Principe", "SA" => "Saudi Arabia", "SN" => "Senegal", "SC" => "Seychelles", "SL" => "Sierra Leone", "SG" => "Singapore", "SK" => "Slovakia (Slovak Republic)", "SI" => "Slovenia", "SB" => "Solomon Islands", "SO" => "Somalia", "ZA" => "South Africa", "GS" => "South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands", "ES" => "Spain", "LK" => "Sri Lanka", "SH" => "St. Helena", "PM" => "St. Pierre And Miquelon", "SD" => "Sudan", "SR" => "Suriname", "SJ" => "Svalbard And Jan Mayen Islands", "SZ" => "Swaziland", "SE" => "Sweden", "CH" => "Switzerland", "SY" => "Syrian Arab Republic", "TW" => "Taiwan", "TJ" => "Tajikistan", "TZ" => "Tanzania, United Republic Of", "TH" => "Thailand", "TG" => "Togo", "TK" => "Tokelau", "TO" => "Tonga", "TT" => "Trinidad And Tobago", "TN" => "Tunisia", "TR" => "Turkey", "TM" => "Turkmenistan", "TC" => "Turks And Caicos Islands", "TV" => "Tuvalu", "UG" => "Uganda", "UA" => "Ukraine", "AE" => "United Arab Emirates", "UM" => "United States Minor Outlying Islands", "UY" => "Uruguay", "UZ" => "Uzbekistan", "VU" => "Vanuatu", "VE" => "Venezuela", "VN" => "Viet Nam", "VG" => "Virgin Islands (British)", "VI" => "Virgin Islands (U.S.)", "WF" => "Wallis And Futuna Islands", "EH" => "Western Sahara", "YE" => "Yemen", "YU" => "Yugoslavia", "ZM" => "Zambia", "ZW" => "Zimbabwe" ); public function display_countries() { asort($this->world_countriess); foreach ($this->world_countries as $key => $value) { echo $key . ' > <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.se/?gws_rd=cr#fp=bac353e51a633d27&q=' . $value . '">' . $value . '</a><br>'; } } public function eeti_world_options($args) { asort($this->world_countries); $outout = '<select name="country">'; foreach ($this->world_countries as $key => $value) { if ($this->$value == $args) { $outout .= '<option value="' . $key . '" selected>' . $value . '</option>'; } else { $outout .= '<option value="' . $key . '">' . $value . '</option>'; } } $outout .= '</select>'; return $outout; } public function setWorldCountry($country){ $this->chosenCountry = $this->world_countries[$country]; } public function getWorldCountry(){ return $this->chosenCountry; } } ?> <?php $world = new World(); if (isset($_POST['submit'])) { $world->setWorldCountry($_POST['country']); // print out the selected country echo 'you have chosen :'. $world->getCountry(); } ?> <form method="post" action="class-world.php"> <?php echo $world->eeti_world_options('Uganda'); ?> <input type="submit" name="submit"> </form> Â Edited August 22, 2013 by gristoi Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281436-simple-fix-i-am-sure-please-help/#findComment-1446291 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Hi Psycho,  Thank you for getting back to me.  Yes, it is all valid. I have no problem assigning it to a variable, i just can't figure out how to search the $world_countries array using $selectedCountryName and return the value for use/output. Because $_POST value will be the key (abbreviation)...and i want to out put the value (Country name) found in the $world_countries array.  Matt, I provided the exact code you need! The select field will post the "key" of the selected value in the variable $_POST['country']. So, just use that as the key in the array $world_countries to get the selected value as I posted previously. I thought I made the variables names such that this would be clear. $selectedCountryName = $world_countries[$_POST['country']];  Now, one additional step you could take would be to validate the value in the returned POST data  //Check if the POSTed value is a key in the countries array if(array_key_exist($_POST['country'], $world_countries)) {    //Set the selected value (i.e. country name)    $selectedCountryName = $world_countries[$_POST['country']]; } else {    //Posted value is not a key in the array - create error condition } Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281436-simple-fix-i-am-sure-please-help/#findComment-1446349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_C Posted August 24, 2013 Author Share Posted August 24, 2013 Thank you Psycho and Gristoi, I now have it working thanks to you both. I used both methods in different ways in the app. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281436-simple-fix-i-am-sure-please-help/#findComment-1446548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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