Hi maybe I have explained my problem not well. Therefore my first problem: How do you create the following array? (n is number of user and m is number of movies) [code] array ([1]=>array([1]=>0/1 [2]=>0/1 [3]=>0/1 ... [m]=>0/1 array ([2]=>array([1]=>0/1 [2]=>0/1 [3]=>0/1 ... [m]=>0/1 ...... array ([n]=>array([1]=>0/1 [2]=>0/1 [3]=>0/1 ... [m]=>0/1 [/code] Thank you for your help!!! [!--quoteo(post=384141:date=Jun 15 2006, 01:57 PM:name=visken)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(visken @ Jun 15 2006, 01:57 PM) [snapback]384141[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] Hi all, I am new to PHP and need your help with the following: I want to construct the following array named [b]$arr_user_movie[/b]: (n is number of user and m is number of movies) array ([1]=>array([1]=>0/1 [2]=>0/1 [3]=>0/1 ... [m]=>0/1 array ([2]=>array([1]=>0/1 [2]=>0/1 [3]=>0/1 ... [m]=>0/1 ...... array ([n]=>array([1]=>0/1 [2]=>0/1 [3]=>0/1 ... [m]=>0/1 [b]example of use[/b]: $arr_user_movie[6][86] has to contain a 1 if user 6 has watched movie with id86, 0 otherwise I made the following script, however at the end when I check the value PHP doesn't return anything! When I insert 'echo $arr_user_movie[6][86] before line 'for ($user_id=1; $user_id<=NUMBERUSERS; $user_id++)', then PHP returns 1. Can you help me? arr_movie=array(1=>1); for ($j=2; $j<=NUMBERMOVIES; $j++) { $arr_movie[]=1;//zo voeg je telkens een veld toe } $i=1; $arr_user_movie=array($i=>$arr_movie); for($i=2; $i<=NUMBERUSERS; $i++) { $arr_user_movie[]=$arr_movie; } // $arr_user_movie[x][x] bevat een waarde 1 for ($user_id=1; $user_id<=NUMBERUSERS; $user_id++) { for ($movie_id=1; $movie_id<=NUMBERMOVIES; $movie_id++) { $query_user_movie="select * from rating where user_id=".$user_id." and movie_id=".$movie_id.""; $result_user_movie=mysql_query($query_user_movie, $connect); $num_results_user_movie=mysql_num_rows($result_user_movie); // if an entry found then set 1 else set 0: if ($num_results_user_movie==0) { $arr_user_movie[$user_id][$movie_id]=1; } else { $arr_user_movie[$user_id][$movie_id]=0; } } } [b]echo $arr_user_movie[1][1];[/b] [/quote]