cheetahes Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Okay, so. I'm kinda new to PHP, and thought I'd do a little array thing. It contains three (3) family names, and in the family, it contains some family members. I then want to output it like this: ---- Family Name 1 -------- Members of the family ---- Family Name 2 -------- Members of the family The full code that I use is this: [syntax=php]<html> <body> <?php $allfamilies = array ( "Jensen"=>array ( "Jarl", "Carlo", "Svend", "William", "Henning" ), "Knudsen"=>array ( "Karl", "John", "Peter" ), "Poulsen"=>array ( "Herman", "Egon", "Jens" ) ); sort($allfamilies); echo "PHP Array Test:"; foreach ($allfamilies as $family) { sort($family); echo "<br><br>---- " . $family; foreach ($family as $familymember) { echo "<br>-------- " . $familymember; } } ?> </body> </html> [/syntax] It outputs like this: PHP Array Test: ---- Array -------- Egon -------- Herman -------- Jens ---- Array -------- John -------- Karl -------- Peter ---- Array -------- Carlo -------- Henning -------- Jarl -------- Svend -------- William But it *should* (is supposed to) return like this: PHP Array Test: ---- Poulsen -------- Egon -------- Herman -------- Jens ---- Knudsen -------- John -------- Karl -------- Peter ---- Jensen -------- Carlo -------- Henning -------- Jarl -------- Svend -------- William So could anyone please help me make it output "---- Family Name" instead of "---- Array"? Thanks in advance! (: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 What you want to do is change this line: foreach ($allfamilies as $family) $family is an array, but you want the key of that array, so change the foreach to this: foreach ($allfamilies as $familyname => $family) Then use $familyname in the echo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetahes Posted August 10, 2011 Author Share Posted August 10, 2011 Thanks for the quick reply, unfortunately it didn't do exactly as I wanted. I changed my array-looping to this: echo "PHP Array Test:"; foreach ($allfamilies as $familyname => $family) { sort($family); echo "<br><br>---- " . $familyname; foreach ($family as $familymember) { echo "<br>-------- " . $familymember; } } Instead of returning family name, it returns a number/integer (0/1/2) The full return of it, is this: PHP Array Test: ---- 0 -------- Egon -------- Herman -------- Jens ---- 1 -------- John -------- Karl -------- Peter ---- 2 -------- Carlo -------- Henning -------- Jarl -------- Svend -------- William Did I do something wrong? (: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Whoops. That's happening because you're using sort: sort($allfamilies); Instead use asort to maintain index association. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetahes Posted August 10, 2011 Author Share Posted August 10, 2011 Thanks. It seems to work now, except that families are sorted a bit weird... Like reverse of alphabetical (: But I guess I'll be fine with that. Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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