At 9:51 AM +0100 3/11/07, Otto Wyss wrote:
I want to convert weekdays with a simple function like

  $wdays = array
    (0 => "Sonntag"
    ,1 => "Montag"
    ,2 => "Dienstag"
    ,3 => "Mittwoch"
    ,4 => "Donnerstag"
    ,5 => "Freitag"
    ,6 => "Samstag"
  );

  function convert_from_weekday ($weekday) {
    return $wdays[$weekday];
  }

but this doesn't work while

  $wdays[$weekday];

outside of the function works correct. Has anybody an idea where's my mistake? I'd like to use a function so I may return substrings of the weekday.



If the above is your exact code, then the problem is one of scope; move the $wdays declaration inside your convert_from_weekday() function.

However, you may want to investigate the formatting functions of date():

        http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Date should return names using the native locale; if you want to return date strings for other locales/languages, use setlocale() -

        http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php

- and strftime() -

        http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

I think you'll find your work has been at least partially done for you. And, see

        http://php.he.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php

for more information on variable scope.

        steve

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