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copied!<p>Your question is followed by incredible buggy code, but here is a fixed code, which return the result you need:</p> <pre><code> <?php // How do I pass an array key to a function to pull up the right key's data? $var['TEST1'] = Array ( 'Description' => 'This is a Description', 'Version' => '1.11', 'Fields' => Array( 'ID' => array( 'type' => 'int', 'length' =>'11', 'misc' =>'auto_increment' ), 'DATA' => array( 'type' => 'varchar', 'length' => '255' ) ) ); $var['TEST2'] = Array ( 'Description' => 'This is the 2nd Description', 'Version' => '2.1', 'Fields' => Array( 'ID' => array( 'type' => 'int', 'length' => '11', 'misc' =>'auto_increment' ), 'DATA' => array( 'type' => 'varchar', 'length' => '255' ) ) ); function buildStructure($obj) { global $var; $output = ''; // $primaryKey = $VAR[$obj]['primary key']; // Primary key is not // defined in original array!!! foreach ($var[$obj]['Fields'] as $name => $tag){ $type = $tag['type']; $length = $tag['length']; $default = (array_key_exists('default', $tag)) ? $tag['default'] : ''; $description = (array_key_exists('description', $tag)) ? $tag['description'] : ''; $length = (isset($length)) ? "({$length})" : ''; $default = ($default == NULL ) ? "NULL" : $default; $output .= "`{$name}` {$type}{$length} DEFAULT {$default} COMMENT `{$description}`, "; } return $output; } $obj = 'TEST1'; echo buildStructure($obj); // output is: // `ID` int(11) DEFAULT NULL COMMENT ``, `DATA` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL COMMENT ``, ?> </code></pre>

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