foreach - array not working

[Nick]

For some reason, I cannot find out why this is not working...I have done similar things before, maybe my eye sight is going bad. Nothing is displaying:

// Categories
    $catarray = array(
                    "1" => "Dogs",
                    "2"=>"Cats",
                    "3"=>"Fish",
                    "4"=>"Fish->Tropical",
                    "5"=>"Fish->Salt Water",
                    "6"=>"Fish->Fresh Water",
                    "7"=>"Birds",
                    "8"=>"Reptiles",
                    "9"=>"Small Animals",
                    "10"=>"Pet Insurance",
                    "11"=>"Pet Insurance->Pet Jewelry",
                    "12"=>"Pet Horoscopes",
                    "13"=>"Pet Names",
                    "14"=>"Pet Medications",
                    "15"=>"Exotic Pets",
                    "16"=>"Pet Adoption"
                    );

//Populate categories and sub-categories
            foreach($catarray AS $key => $value) {
                echo
                    '
                <option value="'.$key.'">'.$value.'</option>
                    ';
            } 

Can you see what is wrong?

[cubex]

Are you getting any errors, warnings or notices? I just tried the code and it worked fine for me!! What's the version of PHP you're running?

Just a tiny piece of a advice. I think you should use arrays rather than associative arrays (hashes) for indexed values like your case. You can could add 1 to the index.

[Jeraych]

alright... works for me, maybe its because you left out "<select>"

<?php
// Categories
    $catarray = array(
                    "1" => "Dogs",
                    "2"=>"Cats",
                    "3"=>"Fish",
                    "4"=>"Fish->Tropical",
                    "5"=>"Fish->Salt Water",
                    "6"=>"Fish->Fresh Water",
                    "7"=>"Birds",
                    "8"=>"Reptiles",
                    "9"=>"Small Animals",
                    "10"=>"Pet Insurance",
                    "11"=>"Pet Insurance->Pet Jewelry",
                    "12"=>"Pet Horoscopes",
                    "13"=>"Pet Names",
                    "14"=>"Pet Medications",
                    "15"=>"Exotic Pets",
                    "16"=>"Pet Adoption"
                    );

echo "<select name='pets'>";
echo "<option name=''>Select category below</option>";
//Populate categories and sub-categories
foreach($catarray AS $key => $value) {
    echo "<option value=\"$key\">$value</option>";
}
echo "</select>";
?>

[cubex]

I'm not sure that the "<select>" as anything to do with it, but maybe you were seeing the output in a browser window rather than plain text output, so that's why you didn't see the <select>.

anyway, glad it worked

[Nick]

I had pasted just the two segments (array and foreach loop) of the page, I do indeed have the <select> tag and stuff

I'm on localhost, I know it should work as when that was not working I tried just a simple array - foreach and it worked, not sure why this one is not working :\ I will post the full code:

<?
    // /CONTROL/FUNCTIONS.PHP

// Categories
    $catarray = array(
                    "1" => "Dogs",
                    "2"=>"Cats",
                    "3"=>"Fish",
                    "4"=>"Fish->Tropical",
                    "5"=>"Fish->Salt Water",
                    "6"=>"Fish->Fresh Water",
                    "7"=>"Birds",
                    "8"=>"Reptiles",
                    "9"=>"Small Animals",
                    "10"=>"Pet Insurance",
                    "11"=>"Pet Insurance->Pet Jewelry",
                    "12"=>"Pet Horoscopes",
                    "13"=>"Pet Names",
                    "14"=>"Pet Medications",
                    "15"=>"Exotic Pets",
                    "16"=>"Pet Adoption"
                    );

function PageContent($do) {
    if($do=="front") {
        echo
            '
        Welcome to your Endless Pets administration panel.  Here you can add, edit, or delete items, and manage categories that those items are placed in.  Please select an option from the left to perform.  If you have any trouble, please see the <a href="index.php?do=help">help</a> section.
            ';
    } elseif($do=="add") {
        echo
            '
        <form action="index.php?do=process_new" method="post">
            Product Name: <br />
            <input type="text" name="pname" size="30"> <br />
            Product Category: <br />
            <select name="pcat">
            ';
        //Populate categories and sub-categories
            foreach($catarray AS $key => $value) {
                echo
                    '
                <option value="'.$key.'">'.$value.'</option>
                    ';
            }
        echo
            '
            </select> <br />
            Product Code: <br />
            <textarea name="pcode" rows="15" cols="90"></textarea> <br />
                <br /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 
                <input type="submit" value="Add This Item">
        </form>
            ';
    }
}

edit: ahhh I bet it is because $catarray is not declared in the function, and thus it is treating it like $catarray does not exist...

edit2: yeah, it works now knew it would be something obvious