Question

I have created a function in PHP that calls a webservice and parses through the result, assinging values to variables and returning them all as an Array. This all works perfectly, however I have come across a need to have an “array within my array”

I am assigning values as below:

$productName = $product->Name;
$productID = $product->ID;

$productArray = array(
            'productName' => "$productName",
            'productID' => "$productID"
            );

return $productArray;

However I now have a piece of data that comes back with multiple results so I need to have a additional array to store these, I am getting the values from the returned XML using a foreach loop, however I want to be able to add them to the array with a name so I can reference them in the returned data, this is where I have a problem…

$bestForLists = $product->BestFors;
        foreach( $bestForLists as $bestForList )
        {  
            $productBestFors = $bestForList->BestFor; 
            foreach( $productBestFors as $productBestFor )
                {
                    $productBestForName = $productBestFor->Name;
                    $productBestForID = $productBestFor->ID;
                }
        }

I tried creating an array for these using the below code:

$bestForArray[] = (array(
                "productBestForID" => "$productBestForID",
                "productBestForName" => "$productBestForName"
                ));

And then at the end merging these together:

$productArray= array_merge($productArray,$bestForArray);

If I print out the returned value I get:

Array ( [productName] => Test Product [productID] => 14128 [0] => Array ( [productBestForID] => 56647 [productBestForName] => Lighting ) [1] => Array ( [productBestForID] => 56648 [productBestForName] => Sound ) )            

I would like to give the internal Array a name so I can reference it in my code, or is there a better way of doing this, at the moment I am using the following in my PHP page to get values:

$productName = $functionReturnedValues['productName']; 

I would like to use the following to access the array I could then loop through:

$bestForArray = $functionReturnedValues['bestForArray']; 

Hope someone can help

Answer 1

you could write

$productArray['bestForArray'] = $bestForArray;

instead of

$productArray= array_merge($productArray,$bestForArray);

Tell me if this does the trick !
Jerome Wagner