Manipulate Array Output

[unemployment]

I have an array and I would like to insert commas and the word 'and' to make a sentence using an array.

 

For example...

 

$sports = array(baseball, soccer, tennis);

 

Ted played baseball, soccer and tennis

 

or

 

Ted played baseball, soccer, boxing and tennis

 

What's the best way to do this?

[unemployment]

Also, I want to combine two arrays so that they array keys match. For example...

 

$sports = array(soccer, basketball, tennis);

$locations = array(New York, London, Paris);

 

Ted plays soccer in New York, Basketball in London and Tennis in Paris.

 

How do you compare arrays like that to create this sentence structure?

[fugix]

is that the only three values that will be in the array or is it dynamic?

[priti]

one way is

 

$sports = array(baseball, soccer, tennis);

$str = implode(",",$sports);

$pos = strrpos($str,',');

$final_str = substr($str,0,$pos).' and '.substr($str,($pos+1),strlen($str));

echo $final_str;

 

there may be other ways also...

 

 

[priti]

for Ted plays soccer in New York, Basketball in London and Tennis in Paris. you may need to iterate both array and generate the required string

 

[unemployment]

is that the only three values that will be in the array or is it dynamic?

 

It's a dynamic array or in example two they are both dynamic arrays

[unemployment]

for Ted plays soccer in New York, Basketball in London and Tennis in Paris. you may need to iterate both array and generate the required string

 

Can you please give me an example.  I'm a bit new to this whole array manipulation. 

[fugix]

to match the arrays by key, you could use array_merge_recursive()

[unemployment]

to match the arrays by key, you could use array_merge_recursive()

 

I tried working with you suggestion, but I just can't seem to get it to work the way I need it to.

 

This is a print out of two of my arrays

Array
(
    [0] => stageofdevelopment
    [1] => companylocation
)
Array
(
    [0] => 
    [1] => New City, South Africa
)

 

This is a print out of the merge

Array
(
    [0] => stageofdevelopment
    [1] => companylocation
    [2] => 
    [3] => New City, South Africa
)

This is the function I used for the merge

 

function my_array_merge ($arr,$ins) {
    if(is_array($arr))
    {
        if(is_array($ins)) foreach($ins as $k=>$v)
        {
            if(isset($arr[$k])&&is_array($v)&&is_array($arr[$k]))
            {
                $arr[$k] = my_array_merge($arr[$k],$v);
            }
            else {
                // This is the new loop 
                while (isset($arr[$k]))
                    $k++;
                $arr[$k] = $v;
            }
        }
    }
    elseif(!is_array($arr)&&(strlen($arr)==0||$arr==0))
    {
        $arr=$ins;
    }
    return($arr);
}

 

This is what I want...or at least what I think I want.

 

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => stageofdevelopment
            [1] => 
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => companylocation
            [1] => New City, South Africa
        )
)

 

Please help...

[priti]

$arr1=array('stagedevelopment','companylocation');

$arr2=array('','New City, South africa');

 

echo '<pre>';

print_r($arr1);print_r($arr2);

$arr[]=$arr1;

$arr[]=$arr2;

print_r($arr);

[priti]

Also for the previous problem

$common1=array_combine($sports,$location);

function print_arr($common1)

{

$final_str='';

$callback =function($value,$key) use (&$final_str)

{

$final_str .= $key.' in '.$value.',';

};

array_walk($common1,$callback);

return $final_str;

}

$final_output=print_arr($common1);

echo $final_output;

 

you may need to tweak a little to append 'and'