a problem with an array

[macdar]

Hi,
I'm triyng to use amazon's webservice. I have a problem with displaying an array, Here is a sample of what I have. What function should I use to display the data?

Array
(
[TotalResults] => 55656
[Details] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[Url]=>http://amazon.com/...
[Asin] => 60092572
[ProductName] => The Terminal Man
[Catalog] => Book
[Authors] => Array
(
[0] => Michael Crichton
)

[ReleaseDate] => 05 November, 2002
[Manufacturer] => Avon

and so on...

[Birdman]

Hello,

Here is a very basic example of how you can access the info. It assumes that the array is named "$array", so change all occurrences of $array to the name of the array returned from Amazon.

It uses for loops on the array. Not the nested for() loop for authors because it is an array itself.

$count = count($array['Details']);

for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++){
print $array['Details'][$i]['ProductName'] . '<br />';
print '<a href="' . $array['Details'][$i]['Url'] . '">Buy Now!</a>';

$author_count = count($array['Details'][$i]['Authors']);

print 'By: ';
for ($e = 0; $e < $author_count; $e++){
print $array['Details'][$i]['Authors'][$e] . '<br />';
}

}

Birdman

[macdar]

Thanks for the resonse. I appreciate it.

However, I'm still strugling with that. I didn't make myself clear in my first post -I'm sorry about that. I'm trying to use new WSDL 4.0. It has different structure than the old WSDL doc.
Ok, here what I'm using:

include('nusoap.php');

// create client from WSDL

$soapclient =  
 new soapclient('http://aws-beta.example.com/AWSSchemas/AWSProductData/beta/US.wsdl', 
  'wsdl'); 

// create proxy - to access services
$proxy = $soapclient->getProxy();

// We need to switch encoding to UTF-8, since NuSoap
// default is ISO-8859-1.
$proxy->soap_defencoding = "UTF-8";

// Construct request
$request = array ("Keywords" => "XML",
"SearchIndex" => "Books");

// Construct all parameters
$params = array ("SubscriptionId" => "YOUR_ID",
"Request" => $request);

// Submit the ItemSearch request!
$result = $proxy->ItemSearch($params);

// Print request and response
print $proxy->request;
print $proxy->response;

/////////////////////////////////////
and the output is:
///////////////////////////////////////

<Items>
<Request>
<IsValid>True</IsValid>
<ItemSearchRequest>
<Keywords>Java</Keywords>
<SearchIndex>Books</SearchIndex>
</ItemSearchRequest>
</Request>
<TotalResults>2899</TotalResults>
<TotalPages>290</TotalPages>
<Item>
<ASIN>0201310058</ASIN>

<DetailPageURL> 
  [example.com...]  
   location=/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201310058/ws 
   %3FSubscriptionId=12X25ZX3MKB979R00482 
   %26camp=2025%26link_code=sp1 

</DetailPageURL>
<ItemAttributes>
<Author>Joshua Bloch</Author>
<ProductGroup>Book</ProductGroup>
<Title>Effective Java Programming Language Guide</Title>
</ItemAttributes>
</Item>
<Item>
.................
</Item>

and so on..

My goal is to have a ability to diplay data how I want to, I mean I'd like to have something like this:

echo $somevar['ImageSmall'];
echo $somevar['Author'];

..etc..

Does anyone can help me?

Thanks.

[edited by: ergophobe at 6:47 pm (utc) on Sep. 28, 2004]
[edit reason] fixed sidescroll; changed url 'amazon' to 'example' [/edit]