Help! How do you create hashtable in php?

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This is what I want to do. First, create hashtable like the following

$MatchCategory=Array();
$MatchCategory["Software"]="1";
$MatchCategory["Hardware"]="2";
$MatchCategory["Internet"]="3";

And I want to get 1, 2, or 3, given a key. Apparently,

$temp = $MatchCategory["Software"];

does not work. How do you create hashtable in php and how do you use it?

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It doensn’t work? What’s the content of $temp. It should be 1.
Print out the array with print. Then you see the content of the array. Hashtables are not really necessary because you can use associative arrays in PHP.

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fbronx,

Hi, Thanks for helping me out.

It doesn’t work? What’s the content of $temp. It should be 1. Print out the array with print.

This part seems to be working right. Question for you: can we also put “\” forward slash and “/” backslash as a key like?


$MatchCategory["/Software"]="1";

Hashtables are not really necessary because you can use associative arrays in PHP.

How do you use associatetive array in php? Can you give me a quick tutorial or … reference me some short article?

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http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/01/48/index2a_page7.html?tw=programming

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