build array in foreac loop

[Vitamin]

I'm trying to build an array in a foreach loop, but when I got to echo the results it only displays the first character of the string, but if I do a print_r on the array it show the data fine.

 

$msgColor1 = array();
foreach ($playerName1 as $value) {    
            $msgColor1['name'] .= $value[$i];
            $i = $i + 1;            
        }

 

print_r show the data but when i do

 

foreach ($msgColor1 as $test) {
            echo $test['name'];
}

Only shows the first character in the string

[BlueSkyIS]

what is supposed to be in the array?

[Vitamin]

the name of the person in playerName1 which is a array

[jcbones]

$value is probably a string, and not an array.

[Vitamin]

$value is a string. I want to put that string in an array.

 

Anyone have a good tutorial about building arrays in a loop?  I've been looking, but cant really find what I'm looking for.

[jcbones]

Modify your code to reflect it.

 

$msgColor1 = array();
foreach ($playerName1 as $value) {    
            $msgColor1['name'] .= $value[$i]; //<- you are referencing value as an array, which would split the string by characters.  remove the [$i], and you are good to go.
            $i = $i + 1;            
        }

 

So it should read.

$msgColor1 = array();
foreach ($playerName1 as $value) {    
            $msgColor1['name'] .= $value;
            $i = $i + 1;            
        }

[Vitamin]

Oh right on. Thank you so much works like a charm.

[marcus]

Are you trying to store all of the player names in an multi-dimensional array? So that msgColor1 is an array and has an array inside of it with the key named "name" and each value of the array "name" has each of the player names?

 

If that's the case:

foreach($playerName1 AS $value){
    $msgColor1['name'][] = $value;
}

 

And calling print_r on msgColor1 will give you an output of something similar to:

 

Array
(
    [name] => Array
        (
            [0] => johnny
            [1] => bob
            [2] => malcolm
        )

)