Explode/Implode in foreach loop - php

Question

I have a list of strings like
$list = "foo, bar";
I use explode on this list to get the list items as an array:
$strings = explode(", ", $list);
Now I need to take each item of the array and pass it to an API one by one and the API will return the IDs for the list entries. I want to end up with a string that is just like $list but with the IDs instead of the strings.
My problem is that I can't pass an array to the API funtion. I need to do it for every single list item. So I'm looping through the array:
foreach($strings as $names){
$ID = $o_api->GetGroupIdsByName($s_token, $names)->getData();
$AssignedGroups = implode("", $ID).";";
echo $AssignedGroups;
}
If I run this code the result is: 3;4;
Which is exactly what I need to pass it to another API function. But when I need to re-use this list outside of the loop . If I then use $AssignedGroups I only get the last ID, not the 2 (or more) merged ones.
What am I doing wrong?
Here is the complete code for reference:
$Groups = explode(", ", $value["Groups"]);
//var_dump($Groups);
foreach($Groups as $Names){
$GroupIDs = $o_api->GetGroupIdsByName($s_token, $Names)->getData();
$AssignedGroups = implode("", $GroupIDs).";";
echo $AssignedGroups;
}
$o_api->CreateUser($s_token, $Login, $Password, $IsOfflineUser, $IsWindowsUser, $FirstName, $LastName, $AssignedGroups, $Ratings);

Answer 1

What really should be done here:
$Groups = explode(", ", $value["Groups"]);
//var_dump($Groups);
// init as empty array
$AssignedGroups = [];
foreach ($Groups as $Names) {
$GroupIDs = $o_api->GetGroupIdsByName($s_token, $Names)->getData();
// a new string to array
$AssignedGroups[] = implode(';', $GroupIDs);
}
// here you can implode again:
$AssignedGroups = implode(';', $AssignedGroups);
// or even with another delimiter
$AssignedGroups = implode(',', $AssignedGroups);
Fiddle with implode example.