Looking for someone with PHP experience (foreach)

Hi! I only know a few basic things about PHP and tried to get this to work for hours but it just does not work.

So I want to ask if someone here might be experienced with PHP. If you know it this should only take a minute or two for you to figure out. :)

I have a nested array. Its just a list like this

array[0]["Name"]="Alex";

array[0]["Serial"]="12345";

array[0]["NIC"]="1dA21n";

array[1]["Name"]="Roland";

array[1]["Serial"]="1337";

array[1]["NIC"]="uR0ck";

and so on...

and I want to compare the entered value submitted with HTTPPost to all array entries with a foreach loop. But I can't figure out how to write this loop properly. <img src="smileys/smiley18.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

The original code:

<?

// Check for post data

if ($_POST)

{

    // Initialize user array in format "Username"=>"Serial"

    $user_array = array(

        "John Doe"=>"abc-def-ghi",

        "Jane Smith"=>"123-456-789"

    );

    // Get info from post variables

    $user = $_POST['user'];

    $serial = $_POST['serial'];

    $installed = $_POST['installed'];

    // Step through the user array

    foreach($user_array as $username=>$serialnumber)

    {

        // Compare current item to the posted information

        if(($user==$username) AND ($serial==$serialnumber))

        {

            // The current user matched, return info and exit

            echo md5($user).md5($serial).'::'.$installed;

            exit;

        }

    }

    // If this script makes it this far, nothing matched, return error code

    echo -1;

}

else

{

    // no post data was sent, return error code

    echo -1;

}

?>

I changed the array and added another POST variable.

I tried several things from the php manual and php tutorial sites like:

foreach ($user_array as $type => $properties) {

// $properties = $GodArray[$type]

foreach ($properties as $property => $value) {

    // $value = $GodArray[$type][$property]

    //echo $property, "=", $value, "<br />";

             if(($user==$username) AND ($serial==$serialnumber) AND ($nic==$nicid)

        {

             //The current user matched, return info and exit

            echo md5($user).md5($serial).md5($nic).'::'.$installed;

            exit;

        }

}

}

or:

/*

foreach ($user_array as $nr => $inhalt)

{

    $username[$nr] = ( $inhalt['User'] );

    $serialnumber[$nr]   = ( $inhalt['Serial'] );

    $nicid[$nr] = ( $inhalt['NIC'] );

     echo $username.$serialnumber.$nicid;

}

*/

or:

    // Step through the user array

    //foreach($user_array as ($username, $serialnumber, $nicid))

     //foreach ($user_array as $v1) {

    //foreach ($v1 as $v2) {

    //    if(($user==$username) AND ($serial==$serialnumber) AND ($nic==$nicid)

    //    {

            // The current user matched, return info and exit

    //        echo md5($user).md5($serial).md5($nic).'::'.$installed;

    //        exit;

    //    }   

    //}

//}

    //{

        // Compare current item to the posted information

        //if(($user==$username) AND ($serial==$serialnumber) AND ($nic==$nicid)

        //{

            // The current user matched, return info and exit

        //    echo md5($user).md5($serial).md5($nic).'::'.$installed;

        //    exit;

        //}

    //}

But it puts out everything in one line (all data from every array entry) or I get an syntax error with missing , ( or {.

Does anyone know how to do this? Any help would be very much appreciated.

Hi. I have a solution for my problem now. :)

foreach ($user_array as $nr => $inhalt) { 
        // Compare current item to the posted information 
        if($user == $inhalt["User"] AND $serial == $inhalt["Serial"]) { 
            // The current user matched, return info and exit 
            echo md5($user).md5($serial).'::'.$installed; 
            exit; 
        }  
}