Question

I have a PHP array which has several different fields. For some of the rows id and name is the same and the rest of data is different.

I want to display the data in an HTML table without listing the duplicated data more than once. I realize that I can use colspan/rowspan to merge the table cells, but I’m not sure how to do counts/sums based on the matching values.

Below is how my table looks like :

Id      Name     value1      value2       value3
2312     ABC     test        test2         test3   
2312     ABC     XYz          122           211
2455     XYZ     val11        val2          val3

Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

I can suggest you to create a new multidimensional array and merge the arrays that have the same ID … the rest will be easy. Take a look at the example I’ve made

<?
 $init_array = array(
  array('id'=>2312, 'name'=>'ABC', 'value1'=>'asda', 'value2'=>'sdf', 'value3'=>'dfg'),
  array('id'=>2312, 'name'=>'ABC', 'value1'=>'asd', 'value2'=>'fgd', 'value3'=>'ret'),
  array('id'=>2455, 'name'=>'XYZ', 'value1'=>'sdgg', 'value2'=>'rew', 'value3'=>'gdg'),
 );
 $formatted_array = array();

 foreach( $init_array as $element ) {
  $formatted_array[ $element['id'] ][] = $element;
 }
?>

<table border="2">
 <? foreach($formatted_array as $row ): ?>
   <tr>
     <td rowspan="<?=count($row)?>"><?=$row[0]['id']?></td>
     <td rowspan="<?=count($row)?>"><?=$row[0]['name']?></td>
     <? foreach( $row as $value ): ?>
      <td><?=$value['value1']?></td>
      <td><?=$value['value2']?></td>
      <td><?=$value['value3']?></td>
      </tr><tr>
     <? endforeach; ?>
   </tr>
 <? endforeach; ?>
</table>

the example in CodePad