Thread: Creating a static array in php

I have a question. How do you create a static array in php?

Originally Posted by ooen

I have a question. How do you create a static array in php?

Using array() function ? Using sessions? It really depends on what you understand by static array in PHP...

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This is what I want to do. There is a list of directories that I want to store in an array, but I want to run the routine only once to create the array, and I want to make a static reference so that I can just keep referencing it. How can I do this?

Originally Posted by ooen

This is what I want to do. There is a list of directories that I want to store in an array, but I want to run the routine only once to create the array, and I want to make a static reference so that I can just keep referencing it. How can I do this?

If you want to run a routine only once to create an array all you have to do is

Code:

if (!isset($my_nice_array)){
  // routine to populate the array here...
  ...
}

but looking at that article I intend to believe that what you are actually trying to achieve is making "search engine friendly" URLs. If that is the case, these two articles might explain a bit better the subject:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/sea...friendly-urls/
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Apache/Se...h-mod-rewrite/

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I actually read both articles while back :) . The problem is that this is not good enough if you want to create descriptive URL strings; this is how I came up with a solution I presented in the paper. However, I didn't know how I can create the array only once in php. Now I know ... Thanks :) .