PHP two dimensional array into HTML

Question

A simple Google search will reveal a multitude of solutions for converting a two dimension array into HTML using PHP. Unfortunately none of these has the answers I am lookin

Answer 1

You'll need two loops. One to loop through the first level, and another to go through the second level. This assumes that your two dimensional array is regularly rectangular.

//our example array
$foo['one']['a'] = '1a';
$foo['one']['b'] = '1b';
$foo['two']['a'] = '2a';
$foo['two']['b'] = '1b';

//open table
echo '';

//our control variable
$first = true;

foreach($foo as $key1 => $val1) {
    //if first time through, we need a header row
    if($first){
        echo '';
        foreach($val1 as $key2 => $value2){
            echo '';
        }
        echo '';

        //set control to false
        $first = false;
    }

    //echo out each object in the table
    echo '';
    foreach($val1 as $key2 => $value2){
        echo '';
    }
    echo '';
}

echo '
'.$key2.'
'.$key1.'
'.$value2.'
';

Haven't tested it, but that should do it for you. First level of the array is rows, second level of the array is columns.

Sample Output for our $foo array:

+-----+-----+-----+
|     |  a  |  b  |
+-----+-----+-----+
| one | 1a  | 1b  |
+-----+-----+-----+
| two | 2a  | 2b  |
+-----+-----+-----+