array manipulation and rearranging - php

Question

Here's my deal.
I have this array:
Array // called $data in my code
(
[0] => Array
(
[name] => quantity
[value] => 0
)
[1] => Array
(
[name] => var_id
[value] => 4
)
[2] => Array
(
[name] => quantity
[value] => 0
)
[3] => Array
(
[name] => var_id
[value] => 5
)
)
which I need it to be like:
Array // called $temp in my code
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[name] => quantity
[value] => 0
)
[1] => Array
(
[name] => var_id
[value] => 4
)
)
[2] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[name] => quantity
[value] => 0
)
[1] => Array
(
[name] => var_id
[value] => 5
)
)
)
and I did it using this code I made:
$data = $_POST['data'];
$temp = array();
foreach($data as $key => $datum)
{
if($key%2 == 0)
{
$temp[$key] = array();
array_push($temp[$key], $datum, $data[$key+1]);
}
}
But I think that my code is some kinda stupid, specially if I have a huge data.
eventually what I want to do is just have each two indexes combined in one array, and I know that there should be something better than my code to do it, any suggestions?

Answer 1

Discover array_chunk()
$temp = array_chunk($data, 2);

Answer 2

$cnt = count($data);
$temp = array();
for ($i = 0; $i < $cnt; $i = $i + 2)
{
$temp[] = array($data[$i], $data[$i+1]);
}

Answer 3

Take a look at array_chunk.
<?php
$array = array(
array(1),
array(2),
array(3),
array(4),
);
print_r(
array_chunk($array, 2, false)
);
/*
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => 1
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => 2
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => 3
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => 4
)
)
)
*/