Store specific row count with array_push - php

Question

I'm trying to store a count of specific array items so that I know which row to style in laravel excel
What I would like to do is increase my iterator $rowCount any time I do an array_push, but any time I specifically process an array_push for $groupItem, I want to store the count in $boldRows that way I can apply styling to only those rows.
$allgroupResult= array();
$rowCount = 2; //since I have a sticky header in the excel file I start the count at 2
$boldRows = array();
foreach($prices->groups as $group){
$groupItem = array();
$groupItem["category_code"] = $group->category_code;
$groupItem["category_name"] = $group->category_name;
$groupItem["category_description"] = $group->category_description;
array_push($allgroupResult, $groupItem);
foreach($group->skus as $sku){
$skuItem = array();
$skuItem["identifier"] = $sku->info->identifier;
array_push($allgroupResult, $skuItem);
}
}
category one with 3 products (total of 4 rows) and category two with 2 products (total of 3 rows), would give me 7 total rows starting at row 2. So my expected result with this would be that $boldRows would then contain 2 and 6 for the category rows (because my count starts at 2 then processes 3 products so the next category row is at 6)
How can I properly achieve this?

Answer 1

I would have thought that you just needed to increment the rowcount each time you push a new element to the array and keep track of the rows you want to be in bold...
$rowCount = 2; //since I have a sticky header in the excel file I start the count at 2
$boldRows = array();
foreach($prices->groups as $group){
$groupItem = array();
$groupItem["category_code"] = $group->category_code;
$groupItem["category_name"] = $group->category_name;
$groupItem["category_description"] = $group->category_description;
array_push($allgroupResult, $groupItem);
array_push($boldRows, $rowCount++); // Store count & increment
foreach($group->skus as $sku){
$skuItem = array();
$skuItem["identifier"] = $sku->info->identifier;
array_push($allgroupResult, $skuItem);
$rowCount++; // Just increment count
}
}
You may need to adjust the $rowCount depending on how the rows match the arrays - arrays are 0 based and I don't know how the rows will be based.
Based on PHPExcel Make first row bold and the row number excel row conversion from Convert A to 1 B to 2 ... Z to 26 and then AA to 27 AB to 28 (column indexes to column references in Excel) (modified for PHP), you can then use something like ...
foreach ( $boldRows as $row ) {
$cell_name = excelColumnFromNumber($row)."1";
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getStyle( $cell_name )->getFont()->setBold( true );
}
function excelColumnFromNumber($column)
{
$columnString = "";
while ($column > 0)
{
$currentLetterNumber = ($column - 1) % 26;
$columnString = chr($currentLetterNumber + 65) . $columnString;
$column = ($column - ($currentLetterNumber + 1)) / 26;
}
return $columnString;
}