Re: order/reorder pull out data from arrays

Dallas Cahker wrote: > I have an array that i would like to sort and reorder based on a simple > critera. I already order the data but I would like to break the data now > into sections by customer id, so one customer has 5 things and another > customer has one. How can I do that with an array. > > $data = orders($id,$status); > $c = count($data); > for($i=0; $i<$c; $i++) { > $orderid = $data[$i]['orderid']; > $customerid = $data[$i]['customerid']; > $name = $data[$i]['name']; > print $orderid.' - '.$customerid.' - '.$name.'<br>'; > } // something like this?: $grouped = array(); foreach ($data as $d) { $cid = $d['customerid']; if (!isset($grouped[$cid])) { $grouped[$cid] = array( 'cust' => "{$cid} - {$d['name']}"; 'data' => array(); ); } // I dont know exactly what constitutes an order line // - your example doesn't make it clear $grouped[$cid]['data'][] = "make a string of the current orderline here!"; } foreach ($grouped as $cid => $data) { echo $data['cust'],"\n"; foreach ($data['data'] as $orderline) echo $orderline,"\n"; } > What it is currently is all the orders are ordered by the customer number, > however I would like to group it a little nicer on the output. > ... > > Anyway I can do that? as many as there ways to skin a cat probably :-) >