Question

I have two arrays built from an XML response to an api. One array gives me the product info form one store and the other array gives me just the stock level in another. It looks like this:

foreach($filteredStock as $t=>$k){
    $codeFirst[] = $k['code'];

    echo '<tr><td>'.$t;
    echo '</td><td>'.$k['desc'];
    echo '</td><td>'.$k['family'];
    echo '</td><td>'.$_POST['filterSelect'];
    echo '</td><td>'.$k['onOrder'];
    echo '</td><td>'.$k['cost'];
    echo '</td><td>'.$k['sell'];
    echo '</td><td>'.$k['invStore'];
    echo '</td>';
}

$output = array();

$result = array_intersect_key($mainArray, array_flip($codeFirst));
foreach($result as $results=>$rValues){

    echo '<td>'.$rValues['inv'];
    echo '</td>'; 
    echo '</tr>';
}

I want to display it so that it looks like this in the table:

code / desc / family / filteredClass / onOrder / cost / sell / invStore / invwarehouse

Because I need the second foreach loop to grab the values of the second array it causes a problem trying to get it to repeat on each line with the other array. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Rather than echoing output each time the loop iterates, why don’t you build up the table how you want it and then output it when you have it arranged properly?

It’s not clear to me from the code exactly what you are trying to do, but if it’s an organisation problem then why don’t you store the values in seperate arrays and then combine then and arrange them appropriately before outputting them?

Using echo immediately for each loop iteration limits your options somewhat.