Question

I am building a calendar application which will allow our admin team to input staff holidays, training days, sick days etc and all staff to view who is in/out on any given day. The calendar is built as is the mechanism to record days off. I’m struggling to display who is off when. Using print_r I get the following back from the server, showing name, date and reason for absence:

Array ( 
[0] => stdClass Object ( [name] => Becca [date] => 2012-10-10  [reason] => Sick ) 
[1] => stdClass Object ( [name] => Frank [date] => 2012-09-12 [reason] => Sic ) 
[2] => stdClass Object ( [name] => Frank [date] => 2012-10-14 [reason] => Sic ) 
[3] => stdClass Object ( [name] => Paola [date] => 2012-10-10 [reason] => Sic ) 
[4] => stdClass Object ( [name] => Clive [date] => 2012-10-14 [reason] => Hol ) ) 

I can iterate through and display some of the names and dates, but if more than one person is off on a given date (eg Becca, Paola), only the last name is displayed, I believe because the key must be unique. The following code does this, where ‘date(“Y-m-d”, $date)’ is the means of printing the dates on the calendar :

foreach ($absenceArray as $dateofabsence=>$name){
    if (date("Y-m-d", $date) == $dateofabsence){
        $showname[$x] = $name; 
    }   
}   

Can someone please demonstrate how I can iterate through the above array and link each name to a corresponding date in my calendar.

I apologise that I no doubt have not explained myself properly but my brain is frazzled.

Answer 1

When iterating through this array, the key will be numeric and the ‘value’ will be an object, as you can see in the print_r dump. So the way to go will be like:

$showname = array();
foreach($absenceArray as $object)
{
  if(date("Y-m-d", $date) === $object->date)
  {
    $showname[] = $object->name;
  }
}