PHP - Dynamic Associative Arrays And Sessions

I have an array that has several amounts (based on $$$ sales) attached to a 'name' 'id' and 'goal'. As you can see some of the names, id's, and goals are the same. My goal is to gather a total of amounts and attach each total to whichever 'name', 'id', and 'goal' that made the sale. I'm honestly not sure how to go about this as I'm still learning.

"Cannot find search daemon". I tried.

I've been wracking my brain for the last two hours trying to simplify this. It seems like I'm running over the two arrays far too many times, and that I should be able to do it in one pass somehow.

I have two associative arrays, the first contains a set of older options (previous version), the second is a default set of new options. I want to compare the two arrays, and strip out any old options that aren't in the new set. I want to add options from the new set that aren't already in the old, and I don't want to overwrite and of the old options that already have values.

Here's a copy of the sandbox I've been working it out in; it works, but it does four separate operations on the arrays to achieve the result: http://pastebin.com/erbFujkG

I'm scraping a housing website with html source:
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         <tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td> Bedrooms       </td><td>&nbsp;</td><td >3</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
         <tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td> Full Baths     </td><td>&nbsp;</td><td >1</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
         <tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td> Partial Baths  </td><td>&nbsp;</td><td >1</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
         <tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td> Interior Sq Ft </td><td>&nbsp;</td><td >1,356</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
         <tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td> Acres          </td><td>&nbsp;</td><td >0.16</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
What i'm trying to do is create an associative array with only the details I  want from the above. I've already got a function that steps through the HTML and creates an array element for each row with the contents of each <td> statement as follows:

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$repl = array(" ", "(", ")");
$repl_with = array("", "", "");
foreach ($rows_feat as $id2 => $row2){
$features_raw = $scrape->fetchAllBetween('<td','</td>',$row2,true);
//$features_data[str_replace($repl,$repl_with,strtolower(trim($features_raw[1])))] = trim($features_raw[3]);
$countid=$countid+1;

}
The array produced by this would look like:

features_raw[1] = Bedrooms
features_raw[3] = 1



Basically, I want to take data like this:

Beds       1
Baths      1
Garage    Yes

and create an array on the fly:
House[beds]=1
House[baths]=1
House[garage]="yes"


The problem is that the order of Beds, Baths and Garage changes. So on some house pages the order would be Baths, Garage, Beds.. etc.

Any pointers out there?

Thanks,
Brett

Hey all,

I'm well aware of associative arrays (key/value pairs) and how you can index them in an array like this:

$character = array (name=>"John",
                    occupation=>"Programmer",
                    age=>22,
                    "Learned language "=>"PHP"
);

Then it makes sense to iterate through the key/value pairs of the array using foreach:

foreach ( $character as $key=>$val ){
    print "$key = $val<br>";
}

However, I was watching a video tutorial where he created a $_SESSION array and then created an array associative array: 

$_SESSION['cart'] = array();
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Then he added a function add_to_cart:

function add_to_cart($id){
if(isset($_SESSION['cart'][$id])){
$_SESSION['cart'][$id]++;
return true;
}
else {
$_SESSION['cart'][$id] = 1;
return true;
}
return false;
}

Now that $id variable holds an id converted to integer from the dataabse. So if first item is clicked, id holds a value of integer 1.
When I see this:

$_SESSION['cart'][$id]

I see an array that holds two indexes, each index containing an associative array: [[array() => ''], [1 => '']].
So at index 0 of $_SESSION is [array() => ''].
But then he uses the foreach iterator like this:

function total_items($cart){
$items = 0;
if(is_array($cart)){
foreach($cart as $id => $qty){
$items += $qty; d
}
}
return $items;
}

Now I'm very confused. As you can see in that foreach method, it says that $id (and its corresponding value) is an associative array of $cart array, not $_SESSION array. I don't see how that happened. I thought $cart and id$ were distinct indexes of $_SESSION. I don't see how $id is a key of the $cart array.

Thanks for any explanation to clear my confusion.

Please help, i'm writing a code that a user must match a random word ($word) from a choice of definitions ($word_defs)...No matter what definition is picked from the list, the response is always 'incorrect', can someone please look at my code and tell me what's wrong?

Here is the entry code:
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require_once "include/word_defs.php";
 
$word = array_keys($word_defs);
$word_defs = array_unique(array_values($word_defs));

$session = new Session();
$params = (object) $_REQUEST;

if (isset($params->guess)) {
  $word = $params->word;
   if ( $params->word_defs == $word_defs[$word] ) {
    $response = "correct";
  } else {
    $response = "incorrect";
  }
  $choices->word_def[$params->word_defs] = "selected";
} else {
  $word = $word[ rand( 0, count($word)-1 ) ];
}

Code in body:
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word: <?php echo $word ?>


<form action="?" method="get">
definition:
<select name="word_defs">
<?php foreach ($word_defs as $word_def): ?>
<option <?php echo $choices->word_def[$word_def] ?> ><?php echo $word_def?></option>
<?php endforeach ?>
</select>
 
<input type="submit" name="guess" value="Guess" />
 
<input type="hidden" name="word" value="<?php echo $word?>" />
</form>

<h3><?php echo $response ?></h3>