nested loop - need help

[kjoker]

Hi guys,

Was wondering if anyone can help me with this. Here's what I'm trying to do:

I've retrieved values from table a from mysql and post them on a form.

echo "<tr><td>" .$row['id']. "</td><td>" .$row['name']. "<input type='hidden' name=name[] value=" .$row['name']. "></td><td><select name='item[]'><option value ='' selected='selected'>Please Select</option><option value ='1'>1</option><option value ='2'>2</option><option value ='3'>3</option></td></tr>";

and now i'm trying to display these information one more time on a different page. So I did the usual retrieval

$name = $_POST['name'];
$item = $_POST['item'];

Then I'm using foreach loop to retrieve the item values.

foreach ($item as $getitem => $value)	
{
echo "<tr><td>";
echo $value;
echo "</td></tr>";
}

Here is where I'm stumped. What's the best way to associate the name to the item.

while loop?

Thanks for the help.

[big_nerd]

kjoker,

Try something like this:

<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$item = $_POST['item']; 

// check that both items are arrays
if (is_array($name) && is_array($item)) {
  $items = array();

  // parse each $name array, and set the $item array of the same key as the value
  foreach ($name as $key => $val) {
    $items[$val] = $item[$key];
  } // end foreach

  // display all found item names & items.
  foreach ($items as $name => $item) {
    echo "<tr><td>".$name."</td><td>".$item."</td></tr>";
  } // end foreach
} // end check if both are arrays
?>

Best of luck..