Re: [PHP] Array mysteries

At 12:02 PM -0500 3/11/07, Edward Vermillion wrote:
On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:02 AM, tedd wrote:

At 3:05 PM +0100 3/11/07, Tijnema ! wrote:
On 3/11/07, tedd <<mailto:tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At 10:05 AM +0100 3/11/07, Tijnema ! wrote:

- You could define $wdays inside the function
function convert_from_weekday ($weekday) {
$wdays = array
(0 => "Sonntag"
,1 => "Montag"
,2 => "Dienstag"
,3 => "Mittwoch"
,4 => "Donnerstag"
,5 => "Freitag"
,6 => "Samstag"
);
return $wdays[$weekday];
}
$day = convert_from_weekday(0) // $day = "Sonntag"

Tijnema:

That's also a shorter version of a simple switch statement.

I haven't thought of, or seen, that before -- thanks.

tedd


Yeah it is, but i just used moved his $wdays inside the function...

but well, there are ofcourse a lot of other options, as date("l") would also return the day of the month :)

Tijnema


It's the technique and not the specific data thing I was addressing. When I'm confronted with a case condition, I typically use the switch statement. But, your solution provided me with another way to look at that.

Cheers,

tedd

But what's the cost of this in a loop, rebuilding the array each time, as compared to a switch statement? Just another thought...




Ed

It's just another way to look at a possible solution.

As for the cost, what are we talking about? I doubt that a "typical" application would show any discernable difference in execution times.

One could test this easy enough by running both through 50k loops, but even then I doubt that the times would be that much different -- but I may be wrong, been there before.

Cheers,

tedd
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