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PHP

Posted by Stu Cowley
Stu Cowley
26,287 Points

Help with PHP Array

Hey guys, I'm current building a site for my wife's beauty salon and I am building out the treatments page and I decided I would do the treatment pages like the Shirts4Mike shirts array. I want to have an array for each treatment (waxing, massage, etc). I have been able to build the waxing page but the way I am outputting it seems a bit weird as I can only manage to output all treatments, instead of outputting specific treatments for its correct page.

Here's the code I have done thus far.

(treatment-guide.php)*

<?php

    function get_table_view_html($treatment_id, $treatment) {
        $output = "";

        $output = $output . "<tr>";
        $output = $output . "<td>";
        $output = $output . $treatment["name"];
        $output = $output . "</td>";
        $output = $output . '<td class="text-right">';
        $output = $output . "$";
        $output = $output . $treatment["price"];
        $output = $output . "</td>";
        $output = $output . "</tr>";

        return $output;
    }

    $treatment = array();
    $treatment[101] = array(
        "name" => "Eyebrow",
        "price" => 15
    );
    $treatment[102] = array(
        "name" => "Lip",
        "price" => 8
    );
    $treatment[103] = array(
        "name" => "Lip Bleach",
        "price" => 12
    );
    $treatment[104] = array(
        "name" => "Chin",
        "price" => 8
    );
    $treatment[105] = array(
        "name" => "Eyebrow, Lip &amp; Chin",
        "price" => 30
    );
    $treatment[106] = array(
        "name" => "Sides of Face",
        "price" => 10
    );
    $treatment[107] = array(
        "name" => "Underarms",
        "price" => 12
    );
    $treatment[108] = array(
        "name" => "Bikini Line",
        "price" => 15
    );
    $treatment[109] = array(
        "name" => "Half Arms",
        "price" => 25
    );
    $treatment[110] = array(
        "name" => "Full Arms",
        "price" => 30
    );
    $treatment[111] = array(
        "name" => "Half Legs",
        "price" => 30
    );
    $treatment[112] = array(
        "name" => "Half Legs &amp; Back of Thighs",
        "price" => 35
    );
    $treatment[113] = array(
        "name" => "Full Legs",
        "price" => 40
    );
    $treatment[114] = array(
        "name" => "Full Legs &amp; Bikini Line",
        "price" => 55
    );
    $treatment[115] = array(
        "name" => "Back (and Shoulders)",
        "price" => 30
    );
    $treatment[116] = array(
        "name" => "Chest (and Stomach)",
        "price" =>30
    );
    $treatment[117] = array(
        "name" => "Full Legs",
        "price" => 50
    );
    $treatment[118] = array(
        "name" => "Full Arms",
        "price" => 40
    );
?>

(waxing.php)

<?php
    $pageTitle = "Treatments | Loveday Spa";
    include('inc/header.php');
?>

        <div class="jumbotron text-center">
            <div class="container">
                <h1>Treatments</h1>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="container">
            <div class="row">
                <div class="col-sm-4">
                    <ul class="nav nav-pills nav-stacked">
                        <li class="active"><a href="#">Waxing</a></li>
                        <li><a href="lash-brow.php">Lash &amp; Brow Treatments</a></li>
                        <li><a href="nails.php">Nail Treatments</a></li>
                        <li><a href="sunless-tanning.php">Sunless Tanning</a></li>
                        <li><a href="massage.php">Massage</a></li>
                        <li><a href="facial.php">Facial Treatments</a></li>
                        <li><a href="body.php">Body Treatments</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </div>
                <div class="col-sm-8">
                    <?php include('inc/treatments.php'); ?>
                    <table class="table treatments">
                        <?php foreach ($treatment as $treatment_id => $treatment) {
                            echo get_table_view_html($treatment_id, $treatment);
                        }
                        ?>
                        <!-- ## Issue 001; Imports every $product in the array. -->
                        <!-- ## Issue 002; There needs to be a heading for "For Men". -->
                    </table>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>

<?php include('inc/footer.php'); ?>

So basically I want to do the same for each treatment, but I can't get my head around how I can do it correctly.

I know I'm not making any sense with this, but I'm sure there's someone out there that knows what I'm talking about.

Cheers!

Stu : )

2 Answers

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points
thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

Hey Stu!

Am I right in thinking that the array of treatments covers many things from waxing + massage etc?

You will need to refactor your array, making it one level deeper. ps [] is the shorthand for array();

<?php

$treatmentTypes = [
    'waxing' => [
        '101'    =>    [
            'name' => 'Some Treatment',
            'price' => 40.00,
        ]
        '102'    =>    [
            'name' => 'Some Treatment',
            'price' => 40.00,
        ]
        '103'    =>    [
            'name' => 'Some Treatment',
            'price' => 40.00,
        ]
    ]
    'massage' => [
        '201'    =>    [
            'name' => 'Some Treatment',
            'price' => 40.00,
        '202'    =>    [
            'name' => 'Some Treatment',
            'price' => 40.00,
        '203'    =>    [
            'name' => 'Some Treatment',
            'price' => 40.00,
        ]
    ]
];

See how you're grouping all the treatments by category? You will need to refactor some of your loops if you ever wanted to display everything:

<?php

foreach($treatmentTypes as $treatmentType => $treatments) {
    foreach($treatments as $treatment) {
        // $treatment would contain name and price.
    }
}

If you wanted to show the treatments for one treatmentType:

<?php

foreach($treatmentTypes['waxing'] as $treatment) {
    // $treatment would contain name and price.
}

Hope this helps!

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

PS if you wanted to assign the values in a similar way, you just need to do this:

<?php

$treatmentTypes['waxing'][101]['name'] = 'someTreatment';
$treatmentTypes['waxing'][101]['price'] = 40.00;

// or 

$treatmentTypes['waxing'][101] = [
    'name' => 'someTreatment',
    'price'  => 40.00
];
Stu Cowley
Stu Cowley
26,287 Points
Stu Cowley
Stu Cowley
26,287 Points

Hey Tom,

That makes sense, I'll have a go with it now!

Stu : )