Using foreach inside of a defined array PHP - php

Question

Is there anyway to loop through an array and insert each instance into another array?
$aFormData = array(
'x_show_form' => 'PAYMENT_FORM',
foreach($aCartInfo['items'] as $item){
'x_line_item' => $item['id'].'<|>'.$item['title'].'<|>'.$item['description'].'<|>'.$item['quantity'].'<|>'.$item['price'].'<|>N',
}
);

Answer 1

Not directly in the array declaration, but you could do the following:
$aFormData = array(
'x_show_form' => 'PAYMENT_FORM',
'x_line_item' => array(),
);
foreach($aCartInfo['items'] as $item){
$aFormData['x_line_item'][] = $item['id'].'<|>'.$item['title'].'<|>'.$item['description'].'<|>'.$item['quantity'].'<|>'.$item['price'].'<|>N';
}

Answer 2

Yes, there is a way ; but you must go in two steps :
First, create your array with the static data
And, then, dynamically add more data
In your case, you'd use something like this, I suppose :
$aFormData = array(
'x_show_form' => 'PAYMENT_FORM',
'x_line_item' => array(), // right now, initialize this item to an empty array
);
foreach($aCartInfo['items'] as $item){
// Add the dynamic value based on the current item
// at the end of $aFormData['x_line_item']
$aFormData['x_line_item'][] = $item['id'] . '<|>' . $item['title'] . '<|>' . $item['description'] . '<|>' . $item['quantity'] . '<|>' . $item['price'] . '<|>N';
}
And, of course, you should read the section of the manual that deals with arrays : it'll probably help you a lot ;-)

Answer 3

You mean something like this :
$aFormData = array(
'x_show_form' => 'PAYMENT_FORM',
'x_line_item' => array(),
);
foreach($aCartInfo['items'] as $item) {
$aFormData['x_line_item'][] = implode('<|>', $aCartInfo['items']).'<|>N',
}