Getting formatted result with nested arrays in PHP - php

Question

I am trying to generate sql statement dynamically with loops but i am not getting any idea on how to do it with html name array.
assuming $name and $message are post arrays ... and assuming length of both will be equal,
following is a method i tried;
<?php
$name = array('name1','name2' );
$mess= array('message1','message2' );
$values = array($name,$mess);
foreach ($values as $key){
foreach ($key as $value){
echo $value.",";
}
}
?>
output is =
name1,name2,message1,message2,
but i want output as =
(name1,message1),(name2,message2),
Edit : I have acess to $values only and I will not be able to determine how many values are going to join in $values ..
like it can be
$values=array($name,$message,$phone);
and the result i want will be
(name1,message1,phone1),(name2,message2,phone2)

Answer 1

My solutions is
Step 1: Loop your $values this will gonna loop every index of your array like $name
foreach($name as $index => $value) {
// do something
}
Step 2: Inside your loop values start with ( which mean wrap your detail in (
echo "(";
Step 3: loop parent array
foreach($values as $key => $arr) {
// do something
}
Step 4: Inside the loop of your parent array display each data according to your index
echo $values[$key][$index];
$key represents the index of your parent array while $index represents the index of your child array like $name
this loop will create data like
(name1,message1,phone1)
and I just add this
if ($key < sizeof(array_keys($values))-1) {
echo ",";
}
to avoid adding , after the last loop
This code will dynamically display array you put inside $values
So your code would be like this
$name = array('name1','name2','name3','name4' );
$mess= array('message1','message2','message3','message4' );
$phone= array('phone1','phone2','phone3','phone4' );
$married= array('yes','no','yes','yes' );
$values = array($name,$mess,$phone);
foreach($name as $index => $value) {
echo "(";
foreach($values as $key => $arr) {
echo $values[$key][$index];
if ($key < sizeof(array_keys($values))-1) {
echo ",";
}
}
echo "),";
}
Demo
or this
$name = array('name1','name2','name3','name4' );
$mess= array('message1','message2','message3','message4' );
$phone= array('phone1','phone2','phone3','phone4' );
$values = array($name,$mess,$phone);
foreach($name as $index => $value) {
$join = array();
foreach($values as $key => $arr) {
$join[] = $values[$key][$index];
}
echo "(".implode(",",$join)."),";
}
Demo

Answer 2

$name = array('name1','name2' );
$mess = array('message1','message2' );
foreach ($names as $k => $v){
echo "(".$v.",".$mess[$k]."),";
}

Answer 3

Try this, you not need two foreach loop, only use foreach loop and pass key to other array and get value
$name = array('name1','name2' );
$mess= array('message1','message2' );
$values = array($name,$mess);
foreach ($name as $keys => $vals)
{
echo "(".$vals.",".$mess[$keys]."),";
}
DEMO

Answer 4

You can use arrap_map() function in order to join two array. Here is reference http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-map.php
<?php
$name = array('name1','name2' );
$mess= array('message1','message2' );
$value = array_map(null, $name, $mess);
print_r($value);
?>