PHP Planning board table

Question

I want to make an planning board in PHP, I want it to look like this (tables):

Name1 X
Name2
Name3
Name4 X
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

I have 2 foreaches, 1 for the names and 1 for the data.

foreach($names) {
    foreach($data) {
        <tr>
        <td> $names </td>
        <td> if data['data'] == 1 { X }</td>
        <td> if data['data'] == 2 { X }</td>
        <td> if data['data'] == 3 { X }</td>
         </tr>
    }
}

But this code duplicates the names. When I put the tr and the td $names in the other foreach it creates more fields than 4. How can I combine these foreaches?

I hope someone can help me.

Answer 1

Not sure what your arrays contain, but for starters, you're outputting all the names values, should be something like this.

Now that we have the arrays

$data = array(array("id" => 1, "data" => 0), array("id" => 2, "data" => 1))

Your code wants to be something like..

<?php
    foreach($names as $key => $value) {
        $d = $data[$key]['data']; ?>
        <tr>
        <td> <?php echo $value; ?> </td>
        <td> <?php if ($d == 1) { echo 'X'; } ?></td>
        <td> <?php if ($d == 2) { echo 'X'; } ?></td>
        <td> <?php if ($d == 3) { echo 'X'; } ?></td>
        </tr><?php
    }

?>

Answer 2

I think in this instance you'll need the 2 foreach loops, nested recursion isn't a bad thing unless you've nested things several levels deep and it's hard to debug.

What you probably need is something like this:

//each row is a name
foreach($names as $name){
    echo "<tr>";//<-- new row
    $x = 1;//counter
    //each data is a column
    foreach($data as $d){
        echo "<td>";//<-- new column
        if($d == $x){// is $d equal to 1,2,3,4,[n]
            echo "X";
        }
        echo "</td>";
        $x++;//increment counter
    }
    echo "</tr>";
}