Question

I have this PHP/HTML code:

<table>                                                                                        
  <tr>
    <td>Region:</td>
    <td>
      <select style="width:200px" name="region"> 
      <?php for( $i=0;$i<sizeof($regions);$i++) { ?>
      <option value=<?php echo($regions[$i]) ;?>><?php echo( $regions[$i]) ;?></option> 
      <?php }?>
      </select>  
    </td>
</tr>

The problem is the value displayed is ( Array ). I tried to replace echo by printf and sprintf but I have the same result. But if I replaced it with print_r I now have this information (Array ([0] => Alaska[region] => Alaska).

I need to know what I’m doing wrong and how can I fix it?

Answer 1

If you get Array as your output, then you’re actually doing something like:

$x = array();
echo $x;

e.g. you’re not outputting an ELEMENT of an array, you’re trying to output the entire array.

That means $regions[$i] is itself an array, and you need a sub-index, e.g. $regions[$i][1] instead.