Printing Our Array Data - php

Question

In PHP, Codeigniter: my array, $phoneList, contains the following:
Array
(
[name] => One, Are
[telephonenumber] => 555.222.1111
)
Array
(
[name] => Two, Are
[telephonenumber] => 555.222.2222
)
Array
(
[name] => Three, Are
[telephonenumber] => 555.222.3333
)
How do I list each name out? Each number out? Am I right in saying my array contains three different Arrays? And is that normal, for an array to contain arrays?
When I do a print_r($phoneList), I get the following:
Array ( [0] => Array ( [name] => One, Are [telephonenumber] => 555.222.1111 ) [1] => Array ( [name] => Two, Are [telephonenumber] => 555.222.2222 ) [2] => Array ( [name] => Three, Are [telephonenumber] => 555.222.3333 ) )

Answer 1

You'll probably want to use foreach to loop through them. Something like this:
foreach($data as $arr) { // assuming $data is the variable that has all this in
echo $arr['name'].": ".$arr['telephonenumber']."<br />";
}

Answer 2

Here is the solution. Foreach is the easiest approach.

Answer 3

It's completely normal to have an array of arrays (in this case an array of associative arrays). They can be written like so:
$arrayofarray = array(array('name' => 'aname', 'phone'=>'22233344444'), array('name' => 'bobble', 'phone'=>'5552223333'));
print_r($arrayofarray);
and you should be able to print out the content in this way:
foreach ($arrayofarray as $arr){
print $arr['name']."\n";
print $arr['phone']."\n";
}
If you want to know what terms are set in each associative array you can use array_keys() to return them (as a simple array). For example:
foreach ($arrayofarray as $arr){
$setterms=array_keys($arr);
foreach ($setterms as $aterm){
print "$aterm -> ".$arr[$aterm]."\n";
}
}