Defining your own functions

Change the temperature example to use functions


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PHP two-dimensional arrays
Author: Elena Machkasova elenam@morris.umn.edu
Last modified: 3/3/08
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<?php
$data = array(array(2.8, 6.7, 4.5, 3.7, 5.0),
	      array(6.3, 7.8, 5.6, 8.0, 6.7, 7.9),
	      array(3.4, 5.2, 3.9, 4.6, 3.5));
$temperature = array("2/28/06" => array(24, 32, 41, 27),
		"3/1/06" => array(25, 30, 37, 19),
		"3/2/06" => array(15, 22, 26, 18));
?>
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Two-dimensional arrays
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<?php 
// defining php functions

// the function prints a string as an h3 header
function pr_header($string) {
	print "<h3>$string</h3>\n";	
}

// the function computes and returns the average of 
// elements of a one-dimensional array
function average($array) {
	$sum = 0;
	foreach ($array as $element) {
		$sum = $sum + $element;	
	}
	$average = $sum/count($array);
	return $average;
}

// write a function that converts temperature from Fahrenheit to Celsius
// here is the formula: Tc = (Tf-32)*(5/9)

?>
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<?php
pr_header("data"); 
print_r($data);
pr_header("temperature:");
print_r($temperature);

pr_header("Accessing an element in a 2D array:"); 
print $data[2][3]."<br/>\n";
print $temperature["3/1/06"][1]."<br/>\n";

// we use nested for loops here, we could use foreach instead (see below)
pr_header("Finding the average of each row of data");
for ($i = 0; $i < count($data); $i++) {
	$average = average($data[$i]);
	print "The average for row $i is $average<br/>\n";
}

pr_header("Finding the average of each row of temperature");
foreach ($temperature as $day => $temps) {
	$average = average($temps);
	// need brackets around $average, otherwise it's read as $averageF
	print "The average temperature for $day is {$average}F<br/>\n";
}

?>
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http://rynite.morris.umn.edu/~elenam/1101_spring08/functions/twod_array_functions.php

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