Re: [Php-java-bridge-users] Conversion of array to HashMap

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>Since the PHP array type is not directly compatible with a HashMap -
>even though they are basically the same concept of key/value pairs -
>you have to be careful when moving values back and forth between the
>two.  I have found that building a PHP array with all the values I
>need first and then using a simple FOREACH loop to populate my Java
>HashMap works great.  Here's an example:
>
><?php
>...
>// build a request array
>$request['key1'] = "value1";
>$request['key2'] = "true";
>$request['key3'] = 2342;
>$request['key4'] = "internet";
>
>// == Prepare the request HashMap for Java ==
>$j_request = new Java("java.util.HashMap");
>foreach ($request AS $key => $val) {
>	$j_request->put($key,stripslashes($val));
>}
>

Thanks for the reply Jon.  That's pretty much what I planned on doing.  Am I 
correct that those issues
are specifically with HashMaps, seeing as directly converting php arrays to 
a Vector seems to
work ok?  Thanks again.

Tom

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