multiple arrays

[patimages]

Hi everybody !

I would have a short question : I have 5 arrays (for instance: name,surname, zip, size, group) and I would like to print their content in a table with 5 colums, each colum corresponding to one of the 5 arrays something like
name -------surname -------zip -----size--------group//1st value of each array
name -------surname -------zip -----size--------group//2nd value of each array
name -------surname -------zip -----size--------group//3rd value of each array
etc...



How can I do that ?

thanks a lot !!!!!!

[NogDog]

<?php
$names    = array("John", "Jim", "Jack");
$surnames = array("Smith", "Sullivan", "Snyder");
$zips     = array('12345', '23456', '34567');
$sizes    = array('small', 'medium', 'large');
$groups   = array('this', 'that', 'other thing');

echo "<table>\n";
while
(
   (list($k1, $name)    = each($names))    &&
   (list($k2, $surname) = each($surnames)) &&
   (list($k3, $zip)     = each($zips))     &&
   (list($k4, $size)    = each($sizes))    &&
   (list($k5, $group)   = each($groups))
)
{
   echo "<tr><td>$name</td><td>$surname</td><td>$zip</td>";
   echo "<td>$size</td><td>$group</td></tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";
?>

[BonRouge]

<?php

$name=array('bob','jim','bill');
$surname=array('jones','beam','posters');
$size=array('big','average','unknown');

$set=array($name,$surname,$size);

echo '
<table>
';
for ($i=0; $i<count($set); $i++) {
echo '
<tr><td>'.$set[0][$i].'</td><td>'.$set[1][$i].'</td><td>'.$set[2][$i].'</td></tr>
';
}
echo '
</table>
';
?>

[edit]I was thinking the same as NogDog (see below), but I just couldn't be bothered writing it...[/edit]

[NogDog]

And whatever method you like, probably the best solution is to not have 5 logically related arrays, but instead one multi-dimensional array:

$data = array
(
   array
   (
      'name' => 'John',
      'surname' => 'Smith',
      'zip' => '12345',
      'size' => 'small',
      'group' => 'this group'
   ),
   array
   (
      'name' => 'Jane',
      'surname' => 'Doe',
      'zip' => '01234',
      'size' => 'medium',
      'group' => 'that group'
   )
); 

You could then just do a foreach on it:

foreach($data as $row)
{
  echo "<tr><td>{$row['name']}</td><td>{$row['surname']}</td>...etc...</tr>\n";
} 

[patimages]

thank you very much to both of you ! I followed your advices and it works great !!!!!

thanks thanks and thanks !

patrick