I want to create a new array for each category each time I iterate through my Categories array. My data comes from a larger array. I want to create a unique array with the name of the appropriate $Categories array value each time I cycle through the outermost foreach. I may not have explained it very well so let me know if there is something I need to elaborate on. Here is a sample of the code (I have simplified it to save space but only omitted key/value pairs where not needed for this example. This is probably not the most efficient way of doing it as I force it to cycle through all the menu items each time it runs for each category, but I will focus on that issue later).
//$menuItems['menu_items']) is the name of the master array from which I am getting all my information
$my_variable_array_name is the array that I wanted to create with a variable so that I can create a new one with a different name each time it runs through the ($Categories as $Category) foreach loop.
$Categories = array('0Cat', '1Cat', '2Cat', '3Cat', '4Cat', '5Cat');
foreach ($Categories as $Category)
{
foreach($menuItems['menu_items'] as $Curr_Item)
{
if($Curr_Item['category']==$Category)
{
$my_variable_array_name[$Category.'_Entry'][$Curr_Item['name']] =
array('name'=>$Curr_Item['name'],
'id'=>$Curr_Item['id'],
'amount'=>$Curr_Item['amount'],
'on_hold'=>$Curr_Item['on_hold'],
'category'=>$Curr_Item['category'],
'Measurement'=>$Curr_Item['Measurement'],);
}
}
}
So to sum up and explain it differently, I want to only have to write this chuck one time and each time it runs (for each category entry) it will make an new (different) array with a unique name (a derivative of the category value ie: "1Cat" etc.) So I will end up with 6 different arrays holding the appropriate information.
I tried to use the $Category as the name of the array but it erred out. The code works fine if I give the array a name but it writes it all the the one array, I want each category in a new array.
