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Some help with PHP arrays...
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:22 pm
by philsbury
Hi,
I need a bit of help with an array. I'm posting quantities through a form and picking it up as an array which when printed looks like this:
Array ( [item1] => 4 [item2] => 1 )
What I want to do is now extract that data and display it as a list similar to:
item1, item1, item1, item1, item2
Any ideas?
Thanks
Phil
Re: Some help with PHP arrays...
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:35 pm
by VladSun
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foreach ($array as $key => $value)
for ($i=0; $i<$value; $i++)
echo $key.", ";
Re: Some help with PHP arrays...
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:41 pm
by philsbury
Thanks this almost does exactly what I want, though is there a way to not have the final comma?
item1, item1, item1, item1, item2, to item1, item1, item1, item1, item2
picky I know!
Cheers
Phil
Re: Some help with PHP arrays...
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:44 pm
by VladSun
philsbury wrote:Thanks this almost does exactly what I want, though is there a way to not have the final comma?

I knew you were going to say that - it's your homework

Re: Some help with PHP arrays...
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:47 pm
by philsbury

homework complete, though a slight variation:
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$str = "";
foreach($array as $key => $value)
{
$str .= str_repeat($key.",", $value);
}
$str = substr($str, 0, strlen($str) - 2);
echo $str;
Thanks for your help!

Re: Some help with PHP arrays...
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:57 pm
by philsbury
no, thats not right, should be -1:
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$str = "";
foreach($array as $key => $value)
{
$str .= str_repeat($key.",", $value);
}
$str = substr($str, 0, strlen($str) - 1);