I have multidimensional array which is a query returning the info from a table named 'users'. In another part of my code I need to get the records of only one certain user and I want to take it using the array I mentioned above. It's of type:
This is probably what you're looking for:
$row = NULL;
foreach ($parent as $key => $child)
{
if (1 == $child['id'])
{
$row = $child; break;
}
}
if (isset($row))
{
// Stuff to do with the chosen row
}
$main = // your array
foreach ($main as $index => $sub) {
foreach ($sub as $subIndex => $item) {
if ($item['id'] == xxx) {
return $main[$index][$subIndex];
}
}
}
IMO using for loops (rather that foreach) would make it easier for you to reference the variable you need (by using the for loop variable to look up the appropriate row in the array)
HTH,
David
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I have the following JSON string, I'm wanting to cycle through the 'sub' items and print them out as HTML Select Options but for some reason I can't quite get hold of them.
Only used JSON a couple times before so it's probably a rookie mistake somewhere.
{
"1":{
"question":"How happy are you with your car?",
"sub":[
"Very Happy",
"Not So Happy",
"Unhappy",
"Very Unhappy"
]
}
}
I have the following which let's me echo out the Question Value but how would I loop through each of the 'sub' arrays? (There's only ever going to be 1 question which is why I'm storing it in a single variable)
$questionAnswer = json_decode($data->question,true);
foreach ($questionAnswer as $key => $value) {
$question = $value['question'];
}
Add another loop inside the existing one:
$questionAnswer = json_decode($data->question,true);
foreach ($questionAnswer as $key => $value) {
$question = $value['question'];
echo $question."<br>";
// value['sub'] contains the array of 'subs', so you can loop through that the same way
foreach ($value['sub'] as $sub) { // since the key will be 0,1,2 you might not need it here, so I omitted it.
echo $sub."<br>";
}
}
foreach ($questionAnswer as $key => $value) {
$question = $value['question'];
foreach ($value['sub'] as $answer) {
echo $answer;
}
}
I'm relatively new to PHP and I hope you can help me solve my problem. I am selecting out data from a database into an array for timekeeping. Ultimately, I would like to calculate the total number of hours spent on a project for a given customer.
Here is the code to populate a multi-dimensional array:
...
foreach ($record as $data) {
$mArray = array();
$name = $data['user'];
$customer = $data['customer'];
$project = $data['project'];
$hours = $data['hours'];
$mArray[$name][$customer][$project] += $hours;
}
...
I would now like to iterate over $mArray to generate an xml file like this:
...
foreach ($mArray as $username) {
foreach ($mArray[$username] as $customerName) {
foreach ($mArray[$username][$customerName] as $project ) {
echo '<'.$username.'><'.$customerName.'><'.$project.'><hours>'.
$mArray[$username][$customerName][$project].'</hours></'.$project.'>
</'.$customerName.'></'.$username.'>';
}
}
}
This nested foreach doesn't work. Can someone give me a couple of tips on how to traverse this structure? Thank you for reading!
UPDATE:
Based on the comments I've received so far (and THANK YOU TO ALL), I have:
foreach ($mArray as $userKey => $username) {
foreach ($mArray[$userKey] as $customerKey => $customerName) {
foreach ($mArray[$userKey][$customerKey] as $projectKey => $projectName) {
echo '<name>'.$userKey.'</name>';
echo "\n";
echo '<customerName>'.$customerKey.'</customerName>';
echo "\n";
echo '<projectName>'.$projectKey.'</projectName>';
echo "\n";
echo '<hours>'.$mArray[$userKey][$customerKey][$projectKey].'</hours>';
echo "\n";
}
}
}
This is now only providing a single iteration (one row of data).
Foreach syntax is foreach($array as $value). You're trying to use those values as array keys, but they're not values - they're the child arrays. What you want is either:
foreach($mArray as $username) {
foreach($username as ...)
or
foreach($mArray as $key => $user) {
foreach($mArray[$key] as ...)
I have following array construction: $array[$certain_key][some_text_value]
And in a while loop, I want to print the data from the array, where $certain_key is a specific value.
I know how to loop through multidimensional arrays, which is not the complete solution to this problem:
foreach ($a as $v1) {
foreach ($v1 as $v2) {
echo "$v2\n";
}
}
I do not want to loop the whole array each time, but only when $certain_key is matched.
EDIT: to be more exact, this is what I'm trying to do:
$array[$array_key][some_text];
while reading from db {
//print array where a value returned from the db = $array_key
}
while ($row = fetch()) {
if (isset($array[$row['db_id']])) {
foreach ($array[$row['db_id']] as $some_text_value => $some_text_values_value) {
echo ...
}
}
}
foreach ($array as $certain_key => $value) {
if($certain_key == $row['db_id']) {
foreach ($value as $some_text_value) {
echo "$v2\n";
}
}
}
You mean like
foreach($array[$certain_key] as $k => $v)
{
do_stuff();
}
?
Maybe you're looking for array_key_exists? It works like this:
if(array_key_exists($certain_key, $array)) {
// do something
}
<?php
foreach ($a as $idx => $value) {
// replace [search_value] with whatever key you are looking for
if ('[search_value]' == $idx) {
// the key you are looking for is stored as $idx
// the row you are looking for is stored as $value
}
}
i've a 2-dimensional array and i want to push values to it with a while loop like;
$arr[0][1] = 1. value
$arr[0][2] = 2. value
i ve tried
while($zRow = mysql_fetch_array($zQuery))
{
$props[]['name'] =$zRow['name'];
$props[]['photo'] =$zRow['thumbnail'];
}
this loop pushes name to $props[0][name] and thumbnail to $props[1][photo]
i also tried
$j = 0;
while($zRow = mysql_fetch_array($zQuery))
{
$props[$j]['name'] =$zRow['name'];
$props[$j]['photo'] =$zRow['thumbnail'];
$j+=1;
}
that works but with this i when i use foreach loop later, it makes trouble like "Illegal offset type"
and here is my foreach loop
foreach($props as $no)
{
echo $props[$no]['name'];
}
now my questions;
1) are there any other way than while loop with $j variable like array_push for 2-dimensional arrays
2)how can i use foreach loop for 2-dimensional arrays
You could change the first loop to the following:
while($zRow = mysql_fetch_array($zQuery))
{
$row = array();
$row['name'] = $zRow['name'];
$row['photo'] = $zRow['thumbnail'];
$props[] = $row;
}
Your method also works, but you need that extra variable.
In your second loop, what you actually need to be doing is:
foreach($props as $index => $array)
{
echo $props[$index]['name'];
// OR
echo $array['name'];
}
Pushing anything onto an array with $myArray[] = 'foo' will increment the array's counter.
For multidimensional array, you need to populate the "inner" array, then push it to the "outer" (in your case $props) array.
while($zRow = mysql_fetch_array($zQuery)) {
$data = array('name' => $zRow['name'], 'photo' => $zRow['thumbnail']);
$props[] = $data;
}
To iterate over multidimensional arrays whose depth is known:
foreach ($props as $prop) {
foreach ($prop as $key => $value) {
echo "{$key} => {$value}" . PHP_EOL;
}
}
If the depth of the nesting is not known, you may have to use a recursive function to gather the data.
I got a site that executes the following code
$keywords = ($_SESSION[$_POST['ts']]);
print_r($keywords);
foreach ($keywords as $keyword) {
foreach ($keyword['whitelist'] as $entry) {
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
if ($key == $entry['encoded_url']) {
$entry['ignore'] = $value;
$decodedURL = $this->base64->url_decode($entry['encoded_url']);
if ($value == 'noignore') {
echo "found!<br />";
$this->blacklist_model->remove($decodedURL);
$html = $this->analyse->getHTML($decodedURL);
$entry['html'] = $html[0];
$entry['loading_time'] = $html[1];
}
if($value == 'alwaysignore') {
$this->blacklist_model->add($decodedURL);
}
}
}
}
}
print_r($keywords);
The output looks like this:
http://pastebin.com/B3PtrqjB
So, as you see, there are several "found!"s in the output, so the if clause actually gets executed a few times and I expected the second array to contain new data like 'html', but, as you see, nothing changes. Is there anything to attend when changing values in multidimensional foreach() loops?
foreach creates a copy of the array and loops through that. Modifying values doesn't work.
You can get around this, though, by using references.
foreach ($keywords as &$keyword) {
foreach ($keyword['whitelist'] as &$entry) {
foreach ($_POST as $key => &$value) {
...
}
}
}
With that you can modify $value and it WILL affect the original array.
You suppose to change the Original array.
$entry is just an instance / unconnected node.
you need to change $keywords, and not its on the fly created nodes.