Question

I have a following table display

Task No.    Person            Company           Project Task               Date Tracked Total Time  Comments
14.1    vaish, arpit          ABC-TecHolding    Relaunch Websitnalysis     2013-02-12   19:21:03    
14.2    vaish, arpit          Sugarion          New Opensource Server      2013-02-12   19:21:03    
14.6    vaish, arpit          Sugarion          New Opensource Server      2013-02-12   19:21:03    
5.26    Projectmanager, Paul  ABC-Tec Holding   Relaunch Website           2010-03-13   03:40:16    
5.27    Projectmanager, Paul  ABC-Tec Holding   Relaunch Website           2010-03-12   03:40:16    
5.27    Projectmanager, Paul  ABC-Tec Holding   Relaunch Website           2010-03-13   03:40:16    
8.2     Worker, Willi         Customers ACME    Hosting Data transfer      2010-03-13   00:21:18    
14.2    Worker, Willi         Sugarion          New Opensource Server      2013-02-06   00:21:18    fyhbvghjukjjkhhlhh uuiuijujj jookljh

This is my foreach loop

foreach($result123 as $key=>$task) {
            $time=$this->addtime($task['name'],$range['start'],$range['end']); //to calculate total time per user in time range

            $diff       = $task['estimated']+$task['tracked'];
            $diffSign   = $diff > 0 ? '-' : '+';

            $table->addRow(array(
                'number'    => $task['tasknumber'].' '.$task['id_project'] ,
                'person'=> $task['name'],
                'customer'      => $task['company'],
                'project'       => $task['project'],
                'task'      => $task['task'],
                'date'      => $task['date_tracked'],
                'tracked'   => $task['workload_tracked'],
                'Total_Time'        => $time,
                'comment'=>$task['comment']
            ));

        }

The column total time shows total of time tracked per person.
I want the total time should show only once per Person and not display again and again for each row.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

That’s how I’d do it (Pseudocode) :

• Set an array of “checked” people
• Foreach record :
• Is person in the “checked” array?
• If yes, go on.
• If no, display total AND add person to “checked” people.

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And in PHP : (if I got it right)

  $checked = array();

  foreach($result123 as $key=>&$task) {
        $time=$this->addtime($task['name'],$range['start'],$range['end']); //to calculate total time per user in time range

        $diff       = $task['estimated']+$task['tracked'];
        $diffSign   = $diff > 0 ? '-' : '+';

        if (in_array($task['name'],$checked) $time =0;
        else {
              $checked[] = $task['name'];
        }

        $table->addRow(array(
            'number'    => $task['tasknumber'].' '.$task['id_project'] ,
            'person'=> $task['name'],
            'customer'      => $task['company'],
            'project'       => $task['project'],
            'task'      => $task['task'],
            'date'      => $task['date_tracked'],
            'tracked'   => $task['workload_tracked'],
            'Total_Time'        => $time,
            'comment'=>$task['comment']
        ));

    }