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great stuff, really helped me out when getting this error with my session – thanks!

hi,

I got the same fatal error on this line;-
$eta_array = explode(”-”, $this->servicesTimeintransit[$type]["date"]);

Do you know what is wrong with this line?
i added $eta_array =array() before the line above still no difference

Hi frank,

Thanks. Actually its the error happens after PHP4 upgrade to PHP5. I think the matrix does exist as it work in PHP4 but not PHP5.

How do I email you more on the code snippets?

Hi Frank,

“Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array”
appears in the code. Happened on this line $eta_array = explode(”-”, $this->servicesTimeintransit[$type]["date"]);

More code snippets below:-

$methods = array();
for ($i=0; $i servicesTimeintransit[$type])) {

$eta_array = explode(”-”, $this->servicesTimeintransit[$type]["date"]);
$months = array (” “, “January”, “February”, “March”, “April”, “May”, “June”, “July”, “August”, “September”, “October”, “November”, “December”);
$eta_arrival_date = $months[(int)$eta_array[1]].” “.$eta_array[2].”, “.$eta_array[0];
$_type .= “, ETA: “.$eta_arrival_date;
}
// END of doing things differently:

$methods[] = array(’id’ => $type, ‘title’ => $_type, ‘cost’ => ($this->handling_fee + $cost));
}
}

Hi frank,

I am not too sure how to solve this as this code is not written by me. This code is from UPSXML.

So what should I replace the line of code with to eliminate error?

I forgot to answer your question. I don’t know what you should replace the For loop declaration with as I don’t know the proper logic the author was intending. The current declaration posted

for ($i=0; $i servicesTimeintransit[$type])) {

does not give me any indication.

I think someone has made a change to your code and you should find a backup copy to compare what has been change. Then move forward in debugging any further errors.

I hope that helps.

You would have errors pointing to Curl if that was the issue.

thank you for explanation

ramzi,

Something must have if it was working before and now you are getting an error. Changing from one version of php to another might have different results in how implicit declarations happen also. I am not sure how each version handles it as I have not done full research into that, but I’m sure you can Google it.

One thing you can do debug your problem is to make sure
$fMemb[ login ][ 0 ]
$fMemb[ id ]
are both set and are also strings. It is hard to tell from just looking at the code as we cannot see what those array elements hold at the time of the error. If you can post the echos of those array elements to show the strings values, then it would help in determining the problem of you situation.

sshah,

It looks like your array was not constructed properly. First, you need commas between array elements. Second, you need to use single quotes around the element index instead of brackets [ ].

Also, the single quotes you have in the format parameter of printf are not the conventional single quotes. I am not sure if that would cause a problem too. It is worth sticking with convention for simplification.

Below is the fixed code to form your array.
———————————-
$parts = Array
(
Array
(
‘Part’ => Array
(
‘unit_price’ => 9500.000000,
‘id’ => 0500-0300
),

‘QuoteLine’ => Array
(
)

)

);

printf(’%01.2f’, $parts[0]['Part']['unit_price']);
———————————-

Hope that helps.

Thank you. This was a fast help for me.

This helped at the time I needed. It has saved me precious hours. thank you very much

Thanks very much. Perfect answer

Hi,
I am also getting the error as “Cannot use a string as an offset array”

I am using PHP 5.

$FQL = “SELECT name, pic, uid FROM user where uid in (select uid2 from friend where uid1 = $hostid)”;
$result_set = $facebook->api_client->fql_query($FQL);

for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++)
{
$frid[]=$result_set[$i]['uid'];
$frname[]=$result_set[$i]['name'];
$frimg[]=$result_set[$i]['pic'];
}
What’s wrong in this code?

$count is my friends count. It’s declared in my code.

$count=sizeof($friends); // It’s coming as 9.

Frank, need quick help on this.

hey frank!
i think i need your help, please

i’m getting that same error and have no idea what i did wrong… check it out:

foreach ($content[$main_section_id] as $feature_key => $feature_value) {
echo("\n");
//var_dump(is_int($feature_key));
if($main_section_id == 'wasn')
echo($feature_value);
elseif($main_section_id == 'gd') {
echo("\n");
echo("\n");
echo("
stepcarousel.setup({
galleryid: 'gallery$feature_key',
beltclass: 'belt',
panelclass: 'panel',
panelbehavior: {speed:500, wraparound:true, persist:false},
defaultbuttons: {enable: true, moveby: 1, leftnav: ['arrowl.gif', 0, 0], rightnav: ['arrowr.gif', 0, 0]},
statusvars: ['reportA', 'reportB', 'reportC'],
contenttype: ['inline'],
onpanelclick: function(target){
if (target.tagName=='IMG' && target.parentNode.tagName=='A'){
$.ajax({
url: '../js/gallery.php',
data: 'tab=ILLUSTRATIONS',
success: function(html){
$('.preview').html(html);
}
});
return false;
}
}
})

}

now, i’m getting the error at the second ‘foreach’ loop:
foreach ($content[$main_section_id][$feature_key] as $content)

i’m setting the arrays up in a separate file, which looks a bit like this:

$data['main_section_ids'] = array("wasn", "gd", "wd", "c");

$data['content']['gd'][] = array('"', 'THINGS', 'OTHER THINGS', 'MORE STUFF');
$data['content']['gd'][] = array('other things', 'more of the same');
$data['content']['gd'][] = array('"', 'THINGS', 'OTHER THINGS', 'MORE STUFF');

i’ve tried to explicitly enter integer keys myself but it doesn’t help… the weird thing is, that it loops through that second foreach (the one that give me the error) once but throws the error on the second try. it should loop thrice.

any ideas!?

thanks for your time!!!

oohhhh, noooo!

thanks, man!!!

something about trees and forests comes to mind

really appreciate it! thank you very much!

i tried and it works perfectly but it takes very long time.

Ah man I don’t know what happened. Here is the code:

$v) {
$orderbydate[$v[0]['post_date']][$k] = $v;
}

krsort($orderbydate);
foreach ($orderbydate as $k => $v) {
ksort($orderbydate[$k], SORT_STRING);
}
}