[SOLVED] is big ARRAY a good idea?

[prkarpi]

I have the following code:

 

$GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK = "<a href=\"" . $GLOBAL_LINK . "Artists$SID&action=sf";

 

$SubGenreList = array("100"=>"$GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=11\">2 Step</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=12\">Acid</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=12\">Big Beat</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=13\">Electro</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=14\">Funky Breaks</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=15\">Hardcore Breaks</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=16\">Nu Skool</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=17\">Progressive</a>", "116"=>"Acid, Epic, Hard, Progressive, Tech, Tribal");

 

$split = explode(', ',$SubGenreList[$gID]);

 

foreach ($split as $list) {

  echo $list . "<br>";

}

 

Moreover, this array will get much bigger with about $gID=50 or so. In other words I will have about 50 items in array. Is there a better solution? Perhaps XML, since I don't want to use DB for it.

[tapos]

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[prkarpi]

I have the following code:

 

$GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK = "<a href=\"" . $GLOBAL_LINK . "Artists$SID&action=sf";
$SubGenreList = array("100"=>"$GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=11\">2 Step</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=12\">Acid</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=12\">Big Beat</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=13\">Electro</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=14\">Funky Breaks</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=15\">Hardcore Breaks</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=16\">Nu Skool</a>, $GLOBAL_ARRAY_LINK&gID=17\">Progressive</a>", "116"=>"Acid, Epic, Hard, Progressive, Tech, Tribal");

$split = explode(', ',$SubGenreList[$gID]); 

foreach ($split as $list) {
  echo $list . "<br>";
}

 

Moreover, this array will get much bigger with about $gID=50 or so. In other words I will have about 50 items in array. Is there a better solution? Perhaps XML, since I don't want to use DB for it.

[trq]

I would not consider an array containing 50 indexes large at all.

[prkarpi]

I would not consider an array containing 50 indexes large at all.

 

Is code above a good idea to have or is there other better solutions.

 

Thank you.

[trq]

You could neaten the code up quite a bit, and using caps for variable names is poor style IMO. Constants (and globals) are normally defined using caps.

 

But yeah, this code could be much simpler and your site more dynamic in nature if you used a database instead of hard coding this into your app.