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The online manual might be helpful for these sorts of questions. &nbsp;For example, if you wanted to know if &quot;sam&quot; was in the array, you could use in_array()<br />
<a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.in-array.php" rel="ugc">http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.in-array.php</a><br />
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if (in_array('sam', $my_array)) echo &quot;We found Sam!&quot;;<br />
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The complete list of array functions is here:<br />
<a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php" rel="ugc">http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php</a><br />
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HTH, ~Ray
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The online manual might be helpful for these sorts of questions.  For example, if you wanted to know if "sam" was in the array, you could use in_array()
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.in-array.php [http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.in-array.php]

if (in_array('sam', $my_array)) echo "We found Sam!";

The complete list of array functions is here:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php [http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.array.php]

HTH, ~Ray

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Let's say I have an array like this:<br />
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array(<br />
name=&gt;'sam',<br />
age=&gt;'22',<br />
weight=&gt;'222'<br />
)<br />
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How can I update the name element in the array? to set it to 'John' for example....
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Let's say I have an array like this:

array(
name=>'sam',
age=>'22',
weight=>'222'
)

How can I update the name element in the array? to set it to 'John' for example....

Replace item in array (php)

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