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Reputation: 3591

How to loop array data to generate HTML select dropdown?

I would like to create dynamic dropdown on products in my webstore, but i have some problem looping data. I want to loop data with PHP. My output is data array and it looks like that: 

array (size=6)
  0 => 
    object(stdClass)[34]
      public 'id_attribute_option' => string '8' (length=1)
      public 'option_name' => string 'Black' (length=5)
      public 'name' => string 'Color' (length=5)
      public 'id_attribute' => string '2' (length=1)
  1 => 
    object(stdClass)[35]
      public 'id_attribute_option' => string '10' (length=2)
      public 'option_name' => string 'Green' (length=6)
      public 'name' => string 'Color' (length=5)
      public 'id_attribute' => string '2' (length=1) 
  2 => 
    object(stdClass)[36]
      public 'id_attribute_option' => string '84' (length=2)
      public 'option_name' => string 'S' (length=1)
      public 'name' => string 'Size' (length=8)
      public 'id_attribute' => string '9' (length=1)
  3 => 
    object(stdClass)[37]
      public 'id_attribute_option' => string '85' (length=2)
      public 'option_name' => string 'M' (length=1)
      public 'name' => string 'Size' (length=8)
      public 'id_attribute' => string '9' (length=1)
  4 => 
    object(stdClass)[38]
      public 'id_attribute_option' => string '86' (length=2)
      public 'option_name' => string 'L' (length=1)
      public 'name' => string 'Size' (length=8)
      public 'id_attribute' => string '9' (length=1)
  5 => 
    object(stdClass)[39]
      public 'id_attribute_option' => string '87' (length=2)
      public 'option_name' => string 'XL' (length=2)
      public 'name' => string 'Size' (length=8)
      public 'id_attribute' => string '9' (length=1)

And desired effect should be like this.

Color:<select>
      <option value="8">Black</option>
      <option value="10">Green</option>
    </select>
Size:<select>
      <option value="84">S</option>
      <option value="85">M</option>
      <option value="86">L</option>
      <option value="87">XL</option>
    </select>

Can enybody help me?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1416

Answers (2)

The Alpha
The Alpha

Reputation: 146191

First of all you may separate them using this code (DEMO)

$colors = $sizes = array();
array_map(function($item) use(&$colors, &$sizes){
    if($item->name == 'Color') $colors[] = $item;
    if($item->name == 'Size') $sizes[] = $item;
}, $array);

Then use two different foreach loops, one for colors and one for size like

// BUild the Color select
echo "<select id='color'>";
foreach($colors as $color){
    echo "<option value='$color->id_attribute_option'>$color->option_name</option>";
}
echo "</select>";

// Build the Size select
echo "<select id='size'>";
foreach($sizes as $size){
    echo "<option value='$size->id_attribute_option'>$size->option_name</option>";
}
echo "</select>";

Upvotes: 2

skrilled
skrilled

Reputation: 5371

foreach($yourArray as $item)
{
  // you are dealing with objects so $item->option_name for example
  // this should be easy :p
  // there's no perfect way to do most things
  // so that bottom link you pasted in the comments isn't
  // going to teach you anything but how to copy others
}

Upvotes: 1

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