php implode multidimensional array

Question

I have an array, which started off as an empty array with

$filearray = array(array(array()));

I know how to do it if there were tag IDs set, but I seem to be struggling where I've built on it.

while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
{
    //echo $file ;

    //gets the file date, string needed decoding otherwise throws error. Thanks to stackoverflow!

    $date = @filemtime($file);
    $date = date("F d Y H:i:s.", filemtime(utf8_decode("/home/a1742406/public_html/files/$file")));
    //echo $date. "<br />";

    $size = filesize("/home/a1742406/public_html/files/$file") . ' bytes';

    $filearray = array($file, $date, $size);

    print "<pre>";
    $data = implode(" ", $filearray);
    echo $data;
    //print_r($filearray);
    print "</pre>";
}

My filearray has 3 parts, file, date and size, but I want to print them separately so i can have spacing between them and put them into a table or list, but I can't seem to figure how to separate them to do it, as the above prints it all in one row. Any help would be greatly appreciated to point me in the right direction!

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you plan on printing them inside the <pre> pre formatted tags, then you could just use :

print "<pre>";
$data = implode(" ", $filearray);
echo $data . "
"; // <-- new line, or if you want `

`, whatever how much space you want between lines
print "</pre>";

If you also want file, date, and size in each separate lines, then you could just glue them with a newline:

print "<pre>";
$data = implode("
", $filearray);
echo $data . "

";
print "</pre>";

If you plan on presenting them on a table, then just build up the markup like you normally would do:

echo '<table cellpadding="10">';
echo '
    <tr>
        <th>File</th>
        <th>Date</th>
        <th>Size</th>
    </tr>
';

while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
{
    // other codes inside

    echo '<tr>';
        echo "<td>$file</td>";
        echo "<td>$date</td>";
        echo "<td>$size</td>";
    echo '</tr>';

}
echo '</table>';