[Typo3-dev] Splitting array acording to alphabet

[Bernhard Kraft]

Well. It's the supstr statement. Most propbably the guy you asked for
help doesn't know PHP as good as it seemd to ... (no offense meant !)

Georg Ringer wrote:
>  if(substr($name[nname], 0,1) == substr($az[$x], 0,1) ||
fine. compare first character of $name with first character of $az[$x]

> substr($name[nname], 0,1) == substr($az[$x], 1,2) ||

not fine any more ... compare first character of $name with the SECOND AND THIRD
character of $az[$x] : if ("W" == "VW") -> always false ...

it must be correct:

substr($name[nname], 0,1) == substr($az[$x], 1,1) ||
                                                ^
note the 2 in the second substra has changed to 1. The third parameter of substr is not
until where you want a substring but HOW MANY characters you wont from the given position.

so in the third one we replace the 3 by 1
> substr($name[nname], 0,1) == substr($az[$x], 2,3))
becomes:
 > substr($name[nname], 0,1) == substr($az[$x], 2,1))


And one other thing: I don't really understand what the code should do (I could just extract
that you are using substr false).

If you Want to have an array afterwards which looks like:

Array (
   'ABC' => Array(Array('nname' => 'Atzinger', 'vname' => 'Fritz', 'uid' => 20), Array(....))
   'DEF' => Array(Array('nname' => 'Dante', 'vname' => 'Fritz', 'uid' => 20), Array(....))
    ....
)

then you should use another >less CPU intensive> alogorythm.

Just ask again if you need it ...


greets,
Bernhard