array_chunk_vertical with more than one dimension

[rwigs]

Hi all. New here, and new to php. I have been working on a project and had some good success. I am using the array_chunk_vertical function and it works great. Now I need it to do a little bit more and I can't figure it out.

 

I have attached my working file for review. But basically, this is what I am working on. Here is my code:

<?php

function array_chunk_vertical($input, $size, $preserve_keys = false, $size_is_horizontal = true)
{
    $chunks = array();

    if ($size_is_horizontal) {
        $chunk_count = ceil(count($input) / $size);
    } else {
        $chunk_count = $size;
    }

    for ($chunk_index = 0; $chunk_index < $chunk_count; $chunk_index++) {
        $chunks[] = array();
    }

    $chunk_index = 0;
    foreach ($input as $key => $value)
    {
        if ($preserve_keys) {
            $chunks[$chunk_index][$key] = $value;
        } else {
            $chunks[$chunk_index][] = $value;
        }

        if (++$chunk_index == $chunk_count) {
            $chunk_index = 0;
        }
    }

    return $chunks;
}

$values = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12);
$rows = array_chunk_vertical($values, 6);

print "<table>\n";
foreach ($rows as $row) {
    print "<tr>\n";
    foreach ($row as $value) {
        print "<td>" . $value . "</td>\n";
    }
    print "</tr>\n";
}
print "</table>\n";

?>

What I have will produce this result (using 6 columns in the function):

1   3   5  7   9   11

2   4   6  8  10  12

 

What I would like to be able to do is add another dimension and group them but the second dimension, like an employee number. So say I have the following data:

employee#   value1   value2   value3   value4   value5   value6   value7   value8   value9   value10   value11   value12

101                     1          2           3            4           5             6            7            8           9             10         11            12

202                     2          4           6            8          10          12           14          16        18              20        22             24

 

I want the result to be (still using 6 columns):

101  5      10     4      14     24

1      6      11     6      16    

2      7      12     8      18

3      8    202    10     20

4      9        2    12     22

 

Any help for this newbie would be greatly appreciated!

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