How to iterate over a multidimensional array? - php

Question

I have array like this. This array is created dynamically
Array
(
[Data NotUploading] => Array
(
[items] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[date] => 2013-04-02
[issue_id] => 1
[phone_service_device] => A
[phone_service_model] =>
[phone_service_os] =>
[phone_service_version] =>
[issue_name] => Data NotUploading
)
[1] => Array
(
[date] => 2013-04-02
[issue_id] => 1
[phone_service_device] => I
[phone_service_model] =>
[phone_service_os] =>
[phone_service_version] =>
[issue_name] => Data NotUploading
)
)
)
[Battery Problem] => Array
(
[items] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[date] => 2013-04-03
[issue_id] => 3
[phone_service_device] => I
[phone_service_model] =>
[phone_service_os] =>
[phone_service_version] =>
[issue_name] => Battery Problem
)
)
)
)
What I need to do is to use 2 foreach or 1 foreach & 1 for loop so that I can get each value of date I did like this
foreach($gResultbyName as $key1 => $rec){
for($j = 0;$j<count($rec);$j++ ){
echo $rec['items'][$j]['date'];
}
}
but its only retrieving 2013-04-02 & 2013-04-03 that is 0 index date of data NotUploading & 0 index date of Battery Problem. Basically I need to compare each value and others stuff but I just cant get each date value.
Forgive me for ignorance but I tried a lot :(

Answer 1

try this:
foreach ($data as $d)
{
foreach($d['items'] as $item)
{
echo $item['date'];
}
}

Answer 2

Your for-loop loops count($rec) times, but should count($rec['items']).

Answer 3

This should load the dates into an array sorted by the issue_name. The you can step through them for further processing.
$dates= array();
foreach ($gResultbyName AS $events){
foreach ($events['items'] AS $item){
$dates[$item['issue_name']][] = $item['date'];
}
}
var_dump($dates);