Question

I want to get the list for the food from the database into array order by category so that I can split each entry into the categories.

Like this..

$menu = array(
    'Appetizers' => array(
        'Chicken Tenders' => '$2.99',
        'Twisted Chips' => '$1.99'
    ),
    'Seafood' => array(
        'Bayou Tilapia' => '$4',
        'Grill Atlantic Salmon' => '$3.99'
    ),
    'Steaks & Combos' => array(
        'Cowboy Grande Sirloin' => '$7.99'
    )
        )

Here is what I did.

$db->Query("SELECT menuTitle,menuCategory,menuPrice FROM menu");
$menu = array();
while ($row = $db->Row()) {
    $a = array($row->menuCategory => array($row->menuTitle=>$row->menuPrice));
    array_push($menu,$a);
    }

It doesn’t seem to work. Would you please advise how to achieve this?

Answer 1

replace:

$a = array($row->menuCategory => array($row->menuTitle=>$row->menuPrice));
array_push($menu,$a);

with:

$menu[$row->menuCategory][$row->menuTitle]=$row->menuPrice;