Hi,
I have a little problem I am trying to solve but right now I have no idea where to begin. I am preying that someone out there might be able to help me. In my MySQL database I have a group of figures, one for each record. Through PHP I have concluded at a 'magical' number which I will need to compare against. What I need to do is try to find all instances or combinations of figures from the database which fit inside this magical figure, but how I do this I am not sure. I'm thinking I need to somehow read the figures into an array somehow but I have not had enough experience with php to know how to even do this effectively. I have read up on the issue but it all seems double dutch, and I don't know what I need to do from this point anyway. For example: Magic Number: 7 Numbers in database: 12, 6, 2, 8, 5, 3, 1 Combinations returned: 1, 3, 5, 2, 6, 5&2, 3&2, 3&2&1, 5&1, 6&1, 2&1, 3&1 Can anyone please help? [MORE INFO: Each record in the database has a unique identifier, numberid, which would be used to identify which records are used in the combinations. We can assume for now that the numberid is equal to the number in the database for simplicity sake. Sorry for not making this clear the first time] Thanks, Michael. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
