aquastream Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 So I went to http://www.learnphp-tutorial.com/Arrays.cfm and saw their code sample on two-dimensional arrays. Here's the code: <html> <head> <title>Two-dimensional Arrays</title> </head> <body> <h1>Two-Dimensional Arrays</h1> <?php $Rockbands = array( array('Beatles','Love Me Do', 'Hey Jude','Helter Skelter'), array('Rolling Stones','Waiting on a Friend','Angie','Yesterday\'s Papers'), array('Eagles','Life in the Fast Lane','Hotel California','Best of My Love') ); ?> <table border="1"> <tr> <th>Rockband</th> <th>Song 1</th> <th>Song 2</th> <th>Song 3</th> </tr> <?php foreach($Rockbands as $Rockband) { echo '<tr>'; foreach($Rockband as $item) { echo "<td>$item</td>"; } echo '</tr>'; } ?> </table> </body> </html> Seeing the way that they used HTML in order to create the table headers, I thought I could do better than that and instead list the header names in an array, use a foreach function and then echo the results back. However, this isn't the result I'm getting as you can see below. <html> <head> <title>Array Test</title> </head> <body> <?php $Rockband_Header = array("Rockband","Song 1","Song 2","Song 3"); $Rockbands = array( array("Beatles","Love Me Do","Hey Jude","Helter Skelter"), array("Rolling Stones","Waiting on a Friend","Angie","Yesterday's Papers"), array("Eagles","Life in the Fast Lane","Hotel California","Best of My Love") ); ?> <table border="1"> <?php foreach ($Rockband_Header as $Header) { echo "<tr>"; foreach ($Rockbands as $Rockband) { echo "<th>$Header</th>"; foreach ($Rockband as $Items) echo "<td>$Items</td>"; } echo "</tr>"; } ?> </table> </body> </html> On looking back at the code, I noticed that instead of the <th> for $Header being located inside a single <tr>, somehow the code is resulting in a new <tr> being produced for each of the <th>'s being echoed. So how do I get the <th>'s to be located inside a single <tr>, and therefore result in the same appearance as the original code above? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasa Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 try <html> <head> <title>Two-dimensional Arrays</title> </head> <body> <h1>Two-Dimensional Arrays</h1> <?php $Rockbands = array( array('Rockband', 'Song 1', 'Song 2', 'Song 3'), array('Beatles','Love Me Do', 'Hey Jude','Helter Skelter'), array('Rolling Stones','Waiting on a Friend','Angie','Yesterday\'s Papers'), array('Eagles','Life in the Fast Lane','Hotel California','Best of My Love') ); ?> <table border="1"> <?php foreach($Rockbands as $Rockband) { echo '<tr>'; foreach($Rockband as $item) { echo "<td>$item</td>"; } echo '</tr>'; } ?> </table> <hr /> <?php $Rockbands1= array(); foreach ($Rockbands as $i => $Rockband){ foreach ($Rockband as $j => $value) $Rockbands1[$j][$i] = $value; } echo '<table border="1">'; foreach($Rockbands1 as $Rockband) { echo '<tr>'; foreach($Rockband as $item) { echo "<td>$item</td>"; } echo '</tr>'; } ?> </table> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquastream Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 Thanks sasa for the reply. I already tried your first example before posting. While it places the contents into the table properly, I was looking to specifically set the first row as a table header so that it displays and bold. Your second example however was useful as it gives me a few things to keep in mind to change rows of an array into columns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 If you're using sasa's code above try ... <?php $Rockbands1= array(); foreach ($Rockbands as $i => $Rockband){ foreach ($Rockband as $j => $value) $Rockbands1[$j][$i] = $value; } echo '<table border="1">'; foreach($Rockbands1 as $Rockband) { echo '<tr>'; foreach($Rockband as $item) { echo "<td>$item</td>"; } echo '</tr>'; } ?> ... Change foreach($Rockbands1 as $Rockband) { echo '<tr>'; foreach($Rockband as $item) { echo "<td>$item</td>"; } echo '</tr>'; } To foreach($Rockbands1 as $key => $Rockband) { $tag = ($key === 0) ? 'th' : 'td'; echo '<tr>'; foreach($Rockband as $item) { echo "<$tag>$item</$tag>"; } echo '</tr>'; } Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquastream Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 Alright! Thanks wildteen88. That's what I wanted. I'll now take a look at that code and try to learn from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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