how to order lists correctly in a loop ?

[dflow]

i have a list of check boxes

im ordering it according to Amenity name ASC

im floating 2 divs (columns)side by side

 

how can i get the list to echo it according to ABC :

like this::?

 

A D

B E

C F

<?php 
             	echo '<div style="height:800px;" />';
             	foreach($amens as $amen) {
             		echo '<div style="float:left;padding-left: 2px;width:200px;"><input onclick="changedata(this)" type="checkbox" id="mm'.$amen['Amen_ID'].'" value="'.$amen['Amenity'].'" '.checkAmenity($id, $amen['Amenity']).' /><label style="padding-left:3px;" for="mm'.$amen['Amen_ID'].'">'.$amen['Amenity'].'</label></div>';

             	} 
			echo '</div>';
             	?>

[silkfire]

Do you want 50% of the values to be in the left DIV and 50% in the right DIV?

[mikesta707]

assuming its already sorted, you can simply halve the count of the array, and have two loops to go through them for each div. like

$arr = array(however your array is made and sorted);

$midPoint = ceil(count($arr)/2);//ceil to make a int
echo "<div id="left">
for ($i = 0; $i < $midPoint; $i++){
echo $arr[$i];
}
echo "</div>";

echo "<div id="right">
for ($i = $midpoint; $i < count($arr); $i++){
echo $arr[$i];
}
echo "</div>";

 

obviously you would need to change the output in my example to match what you desire.

[dflow]

assuming its already sorted, you can simply halve the count of the array, and have two loops to go through them for each div. like

$arr = array(however your array is made and sorted);

$midPoint = ceil(count($arr)/2);//ceil to make a int
echo "<div id="left">
for ($i = 0; $i < $midPoint; $i++){
echo $arr[$i];
}
echo "</div>";

echo "<div id="right">
for ($i = $midpoint; $i < count($arr); $i++){
echo $arr[$i];
}
echo "</div>";

 

obviously you would need to change the output in my example to match what you desire.

 

thanks i'll try it out