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PHP

Alison Mercer
Alison Mercer
46 Points
Posted by Alison Mercer
Alison Mercer
46 Points

SOLVED: Trying to set a multidimensional array within foreach in PHP and then send to Javascript, not working?

SOLVED if you get the below from a PHP array in Javascript, you need to set an id outside of a PHP loop ($id = 1) then increment it in the array as the first associative item, id -> $id++ then use that id to call each item iterating through the list in javascript.

To pass it to javascript, first use JSON encode in PHP, $json_array=json_encode($phparray); .Then simply echo the array in a PHP block, which is inside a javascript block like so <script>var array = <?php echo $phparray ?>;</script> and finally do this in JS after you have the array variable set from PHP, array = JSON.parse(array);.

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3 Answers

Pieter Bracke
Pieter Bracke
4,078 Points
Pieter Bracke
Pieter Bracke
4,078 Points

As above you need to parse JSON otherwise it does not understand the data inside of the the array Also you are looping through the array why are you not using i++ in your for loop? what are you obtaining by stating i+= 1 ?

Zachary Billingsley
Zachary Billingsley
6,187 Points
Zachary Billingsley
Zachary Billingsley
6,187 Points

Hello!

Try using 'films = JSON.parse(films);' after you get the json_encode string from PHP. I believe javascript needs that to be able to understand it as an object.

Hope that helps!