Separately display Odd and Even array data in a foreach loop - php

Question

<?php $ctr = 0; ?>
#foreach($level1['Weapons'] as $key => $header)
#if($ctr% == 0)
<div class="left">
#endif
#if($ctr% == 1)
<div class="right">
#endif
<ul>
<li>
<span class="ability">{{$key}}</span><br>
<p class="ability-desc">{{$header['desc']}}</p>
</li>
</ul>
#if($ctr == 8 || $ctr == 7)
</div>
#endif
<?php $ctr++; ?>
#endforeach
Array:
'level1' =>
array (
'Weapons' =>
array (
'Misfortune' =>
array (
'desc' => 'You can make any person fall',
),
'Sorrow' =>
array (
'desc' => 'You can make a person cry just by looking at them',
),
'Stink' =>
array (
'desc' => 'No living person can endure your fart',
),
'Harden' =>
array (
'desc' => 'You can make soft things hard, even water',
),
I have a foreach which will list all the item from the array description. My problem is I created an if statement to assign the values from ODD and EVEN array element to a div which will separate them into left and right according to result. I notice that the result only seems to display on the left side. How do I re-arrange or make an if statement that will satisfy my idea. I hope this question made sense.

Answer 1

I would build up 2 strings in your loop and then just echo them out after your loop. Been a while since I did php so there may be a few syntax errors but you should get the general idea:
<?php
$ctr = 0;
$leftLi = "";
$rightLi = "";
foreach($level1['Weapons'] as $key => $header)
{
if ($ctr % 2 == 0)
{
$leftLi += MakeLi($key, $header['desc']);
} else {
$rightLi += MakeLi($key, $header['desc']);
}
$ctr++;
}
function MakeLi($key, $headerText)
{
return "
<li>
<span class=\"ability\">" . $key . "</span><br>
<p class=\"ability-desc\">" . $headerText . "</p>
</li>";
}
?>
<div class="left">
<ul>
<?php echo $leftLi; ?>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="right">
<ul>
<?php echo $rightLi; ?>
</ul>
</div>