need help with php-templates array loops

Can anybody help me out with this?

I'm trying to loop through arrays to put into a template and show multiple posts on a page using the template. But I cannot get this to work and I don't know why. I'm very new to OOP and don't fully understand it. This seems generic and it should be easy to do but I keep having problems.

I can get it to work if I type the arrays in manually, but that doesn't help me if I pull data from a database and loop through it.

here's what i'm talking about: from this class: https://github.com/isRuslan/php-template

I can't get this part to work in the template

$template->assign('items', array(
array('name' => 'First'),
array('name' => 'Second')
));

PHP:

I'm trying to use this to display arrays pulled from the database with now luck.

$names = array('test1', 'test2', 'test3');
$names2 = array('test2 1', 'test2 2', 'test2 3');


$template->assign('people', array(
      array('name' => $names),
      array('name2' => $names2)
));

PHP:

any help....please.

 

nevermind, someone helped me get there.

anyone interested:

$names = array('Bob', 'Ralph', 'Mike');
$names2 = array('Col.', 'Gen.', 'Adm.');
$i = 0;

$template_array = array();

while($i < 3)
{
    $template_array[] = array('NAME' => $names[$i], 'RANK' => $names2[$i]);
    $i++;
}



$template->assign('people', $template_array);

PHP:

 

Overthinking it. One thing to remember with PHP is "yeah, we've got a function for that". In this case, "array_map" is likely what you should be doing.

Also this is 2020 not 2005, you can stop saying "array" all the blasted time.

$names = [ 'Bob', 'Ralph', 'Mike' ];
$ranks = [ 'Col.', 'Gen.', 'Adm.' ];

function nameRankPair($a, $b) {
	return [ 
		'NAME' => $a,
		'RANK' => $b
	];
}

$template_array = array_map('nameRankPair', $names, $ranks);
$template->assign('people', $template_array);

Code (markup):

You might even consider ditching the "variable for nothing" of the last two lines and simply:

$template->assign('people', array_map('nameRankPair', $names, $ranks));

Code (markup):

If you have no plans to re-use the array again later in your page.

It may even be worth using an anonymous function.

<?php

$names = [ 'Bob', 'Ralph', 'Mike' ];
$ranks = [ 'Col.', 'Gen.', 'Adm.' ];

$template->assign('people', array_map(function($a, $b) {
	return [ 
		'NAME' => $a,
		'RANK' => $b
	];
}, $names, $ranks));

Code (markup):

Though I dislike that due to a lack of code clarity, this too is a valid approach.

The only advantage the "while" approach brings is that it MIGHT run faster since the overhead of function calls isn't involved, but really you'd be better off using a FOREACH if that were the case and speed optimization was important.

$names = ['Bob', 'Ralph', 'Mike'];
$ranks = ['Col.', 'Gen.', 'Adm.'];

$template_array = [];

foreach ($names as $index => $name) $template_array[] = [
	'NAME' => $name,
	'RANK' => $ranks[$index]
];

$template->assign('people', $template_array);

Code (markup):

Would probably be the fastest running of the various approaches one could take.