Combining two seperate arrays each with a different number of elements - php

Question

I'm becoming a little frustrated with my array results. Ideally, I am creating a form maker module within my application and I am working with two different arrays to establish my database columns and excel columns. Essentially, I am using the results provided by the arrays to write directly to a php file (Excel reader file). In order to establish a difference in Excel Workbooks, I am putting forth an identifier "page2","page3" and so on within the "excel_rows" array.
//my arrays
$table_columns = array('field1','field2','field3','field4','field5'); //fields
$excel_rows = array('c1','c2','page2','c3','c4','page3','c5'); //excel columns
From here.. I go on to try to filter the array keys..
foreach(array_keys($excel_rows) as $key){
$page = array_search(strpos(trim($excel_rows[$key]),'page'),$excel_rows);
if(strpos(trim($excel_rows[$key]),'page') !== false){
$excel_row .= '$objTpl->setActiveSheetIndex('.(str_replace('page','',trim($excel_rows[$key])) -1).');<br/>'.PHP_EOL;
$table_columns[$key] = 0;
}
else {
$excel_row .= '$objTpl->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue(\''.trim($excel_rows[$key]).'\',$row[\''.trim($table_columns[$key]).'\']);<br/>'.PHP_EOL;
}
}
print $excel_row;
The result should echo out the following:
$objTpl->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('c1', $row['field1']);
$objTpl->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('c2', $row['field2']);
$objTpl->setActiveSheetIndex(1);<br/>
$objTpl->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('c3', $row['field4']);
$objTpl->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('c4', $row['field5']);
$objTpl->setActiveSheetIndex(2);
$objTpl->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('c5', $row['']);
As one can see, I am missing 'field3' from my result and 'cs' produces and empty row rather than "field5".
I'm assuming something like array_compare or array_combine is the solution - I'm just not able to put it together.
Everything works lovely with module pardoning the array code above. Any help with this would be sincerely appreciated!
-Regards.

Answer 1

How it currently is I'd say you need to set an integer +1 whenever you create a new page and then subtract that integer from the key so you can get the right field.
$subkey = 0;
foreach(array_keys($excel_rows) as $key){
$fieldkey = $key - $subkey;
$page = array_search(strpos(trim($excel_rows[$key]),'page'),$excel_rows);
if(strpos(trim($excel_rows[$key]),'page') !== false){
$excel_row .= '$objTpl->setActiveSheetIndex('.(str_replace('page','',trim($excel_rows[$key])) -1).');<br/>'.PHP_EOL;
//$table_columns[$key] = 0; I'm not sure what this is supposed to do
$subkey++;
}
else {
$excel_row .= '$objTpl->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue(\''.trim($excel_rows[$key]).'\',$row[\''.trim($table_columns[$fieldkey]).'\']);<br/>'.PHP_EOL;
}
}
print $excel_row;