[php] How to create a HTML Table from a PHP array?

How do I create a HTML table from a PHP array? A table with heading as 'title', 'price', and 'number'.

$shop = array(
    array("rose",   1.25, 15),
    array("daisy",  0.75, 25),
    array("orchid", 1.15, 7 ),
); 

Here is my answer.

function array2Html($array, $table = true)
{
    $out = '';
    foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
        if (is_array($value)) {
            if (!isset($tableHeader)) {
                $tableHeader =
                    '<th>' .
                    implode('</th><th>', array_keys($value)) .
                    '</th>';
            }
            array_keys($value);
            $out .= '<tr>';
            $out .= array2Html($value, false);
            $out .= '</tr>';
        } else {
            $out .= "<td>$value</td>";
        }
    }

    if ($table) {
        return '<table>' . $tableHeader . $out . '</table>';
    } else {
        return $out;
    }
}

However, your table headers have to be a part of the array, which is pretty common when it comes from a database. e.g.

$shop = array(
    array(
        'title' => 'rose',
        'price' => 1.25,
        'number' => 15,
    ),
    array(
        'title' => 'daisy',
        'price' => 0.75,
        'number' => 25,
    ),
    array(
        'title' => 'orchid',
        'price' => 1.15,
        'number' => 7,
    ),
);

print arrayToHtml($shop);

Hope it helps ;)

Possibly your most versatile approach is to select a templating system.

   <table>
     <tr>
       <td>title</td>
       <td>price</td>
       <td>number</td>
     </tr>
     <? foreach ($shop as $row) : ?>
     <tr>
       <td><? echo $row[0]; ?></td>
       <td><? echo $row[1]; ?></td>
       <td><? echo $row[2]; ?></td>
     </tr>
     <? endforeach; ?>
   </table>

You may use this function. To add table header you can setup a second parameter $myTableArrayHeader and do the same with the header information in front of the body:

function insertTable($myTableArrayBody) {
    $x = 0;
    $y = 0;
    $seTableStr = '<table><tbody>';
    while (isset($myTableArrayBody[$y][$x])) {
        $seTableStr .= '<tr>';
        while (isset($myTableArrayBody[$y][$x])) {
            $seTableStr .= '<td>' . $myTableArrayBody[$y][$x] . '</td>';
            $x++;
        }
        $seTableStr .= '</tr>';
        $x = 0;
        $y++;
    }
    $seTableStr .= '</tbody></table>';
    return $seTableStr;
}

This is one of de best, simplest and most efficient ways to do it. You can convert arrays to tables with any number of columns or rows. It takes the array keys as table header. No need of array_map.

function array_to_table($matriz) 
{   
   echo "<table>";

   // Table header
        foreach ($matriz[0] as $clave=>$fila) {
            echo "<th>".$clave."</th>";
        }

    // Table body
       foreach ($matriz as $fila) {
           echo "<tr>";
           foreach ($fila as $elemento) {
                 echo "<td>".$elemento."</td>";
           } 
          echo "</tr>";
       } 
   echo "</table>";}

You can use foreach to iterate the array $shop and get one of the arrays with each iteration to echo its values like this:

echo '<table>';
echo '<thead><tr><th>title</td><td>price</td><td>number</td></tr></thead>';
foreach ($shop as $item) {
    echo '<tr>';
    echo '<td>'.$item[0].'</td>';
    echo '<td>'.$item[1].'</td>';
    echo '<td>'.$item[2].'</td>';
    echo '</tr>';
}
echo '</table>';

You can also use array_reduce

array_reduce — Iteratively reduce the array to a single value using a callback function

example:

$tbody = array_reduce($rows, function($a, $b){return $a.="<tr><td>".implode("</td><td>",$b)."</td></tr>";});
$thead = "<tr><th>" . implode("</th><th>", array_keys($rows[0])) . "</th></tr>";

echo "<table>\n$thead\n$tbody\n</table>";

It would be better to just fetch the data into array like this:

<?php
$shop = array( array("title"=>"rose", "price"=>1.25 , "number"=>15),
               array("title"=>"daisy", "price"=>0.75 , "number"=>25),
               array("title"=>"orchid", "price"=>1.15 , "number"=>7) 
             ); 
?>

And then do something like this, which should work well even when you add more columns to your table in the database later.

<?php if (count($shop) > 0): ?>
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th><?php echo implode('</th><th>', array_keys(current($shop))); ?></th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
<?php foreach ($shop as $row): array_map('htmlentities', $row); ?>
    <tr>
      <td><?php echo implode('</td><td>', $row); ?></td>
    </tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>
  </tbody>
</table>
<?php endif; ?>

echo "<table><tr><th>Title</th><th>Price</th><th>Number</th></tr>";
foreach($shop as $v){
    echo "<tr>";
    foreach($v as $vv){
        echo "<td>{$vv}</td>";
    }
    echo "<tr>";
}
echo "</table>";

Here's mine:

<?php
    function build_table($array){
    // start table
    $html = '<table>';
    // header row
    $html .= '<tr>';
    foreach($array[0] as $key=>$value){
            $html .= '<th>' . htmlspecialchars($key) . '</th>';
        }
    $html .= '</tr>';

    // data rows
    foreach( $array as $key=>$value){
        $html .= '<tr>';
        foreach($value as $key2=>$value2){
            $html .= '<td>' . htmlspecialchars($value2) . '</td>';
        }
        $html .= '</tr>';
    }

    // finish table and return it

    $html .= '</table>';
    return $html;
}

$array = array(
    array('first'=>'tom', 'last'=>'smith', 'email'=>'[email protected]', 'company'=>'example ltd'),
    array('first'=>'hugh', 'last'=>'blogs', 'email'=>'[email protected]', 'company'=>'example ltd'),
    array('first'=>'steph', 'last'=>'brown', 'email'=>'[email protected]', 'company'=>'example ltd')
);

echo build_table($array);
?>

Build two foreach loops and iterate through your array. Print out the value and add HTML table tags around that.

    <table>
      <thead>
        <tr><th>title</th><th>price><th>number</th></tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
<?php
  foreach ($shop as $row) {
    echo '<tr>';
    foreach ($row as $item) {
      echo "<td>{$item}</td>";
    }
    echo '</tr>';
  }
?>
      </tbody>
    </table>

PHP code:

$multiarray = array (

    array("name"=>"Argishti", "surname"=>"Yeghiazaryan"),
    array("name"=>"Armen", "surname"=>"Mkhitaryan"),
    array("name"=>"Arshak", "surname"=>"Aghabekyan"),

);

$count = 0;

foreach ($multiarray as $arrays){
    $count++;
    echo "<table>" ;               

    echo "<span>table $count</span>";
    echo "<tr>";
    foreach ($arrays as $names => $surnames){

        echo "<th>$names</th>";
        echo "<td>$surnames</td>";

    }
    echo "</tr>";
    echo "</table>";
}

CSS:

table {
    font-family: arial, sans-serif;
    border-collapse: collapse;
    width: 100%;
}

td, th {
    border: 1px solid #dddddd;
    text-align: left;
    padding: 8px;``
}

I had a similar need, but my array could contain key/value or key/array or array of arrays, like this array:

$array = array(
    "ni" => "00000000000000",
    "situacaoCadastral" => array(
        "codigo" => 2,
        "data" => "0000-00-00",
        "motivo" => "",
    ),
    "naturezaJuridica" => array(
        "codigo" => "0000",
        "descricao" => "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur",
    ),
    "dataAbertura" => "0000-00-00",
    "cnaePrincipal" => array(
        "codigo" => "0000000",
        "descricao" => "Lorem ips",
    ),
    "endereco" => array(
        "tipoLogradouro" => "Lor",
        "logradouro" => "Lorem i",
        "numero" => "0000",
        "complemento" => "",
        "cep" => "00000000",
        "bairro" => "Lorem ",
        "municipio" => array(
            "codigo" => "0000",
            "descricao" => "Lorem ip",
        ),
    ),
    "uf" => "MS",
    "pais" => array(
        "codigo" => "105",
        "descricao" => "BRASIL",
    ),
    "municipioJurisdicao" => array(
        "codigo" => "0000000",
        "descricao" => "DOURADOS",
    ),
    "telefones" => array(
        array(
            'ddd' => '67',
            'numero' => '00000000',
        ),
    ),
    "correioEletronico" => "[email protected]",
    "capitalSocial" => 0,
    "porte" => "00",
    "situacaoEspecial" => "",
    "dataSituacaoEspecial" => ""
);

The function I created to solve was:

function array_to_table($arr, $first=true, $sub_arr=false){
    $width = ($sub_arr) ? 'width="100%"' : '' ;
    $table = ($first) ? '<table align="center" '.$width.' bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="1px solid">' : '';
    $rows = array();
    foreach ($arr as $key => $value):
        $value_type = gettype($value);
        switch ($value_type) {
            case 'string':
                $val = (in_array($value, array(""))) ? "&nbsp;" : $value;
                $rows[] = "<tr><td><strong>{$key}</strong></td><td>{$val}</td></tr>";
                break;
            case 'integer':
                $val = (in_array($value, array(""))) ? "&nbsp;" : $value;
                $rows[] = "<tr><td><strong>{$key}</strong></td><td>{$value}</td></tr>";
                break;
            case 'array':
                if (gettype($key) == "integer"):
                    $rows[] = array_to_table($value, false);
                elseif(gettype($key) == "string"):
                    $rows[] = "<tr><td><strong>{$key}</strong></td><td>".
                        array_to_table($value, true, true) . "</td>";
                endif;
                break;
            default:
                # code...
                break;
        }
    endforeach;
    $ROWS = implode("\n", $rows);
    $table .= ($first) ? $ROWS . '</table>' : $ROWS;
    return $table;
}

echo array_to_table($array);

And the output is this

echo '<table><tr><th>Title</th><th>Price</th><th>Number</th></tr>';
foreach($shop as $id => $item) {
    echo '<tr><td>'.$item[0].'</td><td>'.$item[1].'</td><td>'.$item[2].'</td></tr>';
}
echo '</table>';

this will print 2-dimensional array as table.

First row will be header.

function array_to_table($table) 
{   
    echo "<table>";

    // Table header
    foreach ($table[0] as $header) {
      echo "<th>".$header."</th>";
    }

    // Table body
    $body = array_slice( $table, 1, null, true);
    foreach ($body as $row) {
      echo "<tr>";
        foreach ($row as $cell) {
          echo "<td>".$cell."</td>";
        } 
      echo "</tr>";
    }     
  echo "</table>";
}

usage:

arrayOfArrays = array(
    array('header1',"header2","header3"),
    array('1.1','1.2','1.3'),
    array('2.1','2.2','2.3'),
);


array_to_table($arrayOfArrays);

result:

<table><tbody><tr><th>header1</th><th>header2</th><th>header3/th><tr><td>1.1</td><td>1.2</td><td>1.3</td></tr><tr><td>2.1</td><td>2.2</td><td>2.3</td></tr><tr><td>3.1</td><td>3.2</td><td>3.3</td></tr></tbody></table>

Array into table. Array into div. JSON into table. JSON into div.

All are nicely handle this class. Click here to get a class

How to use it?

Just get and object

$obj = new Arrayinto();

Create an array you want to convert

$obj->array_object = array("AAA" => "1111",
                  "BBB" => "2222",
                  "CCC" => array("CCC-1" => "123",
                                 "CCC-2" => array("CCC-2222-A" => "CA2",
                                                  "CCC-2222=B" => "CB2"
                                                 )
                                )

                 );

If you want to convert Array into table. Call this.

$result = $obj->process_table();

If you want to convert Array into div. Call this.

$result = $obj->process_div();

Let suppose if you have a JSON

$obj->json_string = '{
            "AAA":"11111",
            "BBB":"22222",
            "CCC":[
                    {
                        "CCC-1":"123"
                    },
                    {
                        "CCC-2":"456"
                    }
                  ] 
         }
        ';

You can convert into table/div like this

$result = $obj->process_json('div');

OR

$result = $obj->process_json('table');

<?php

echo "<table>
<tr>
<th>title</th>
<th>price</th>
<th>number</th>
</tr>";
for ($i=0; $i<count($shop, 0); $i++)
{
    echo '<tr>';
    for ($j=0; $j<3; $j++)
    {
        echo '<td>'.$shop[$i][$j].'</td>';
    }
    echo '</tr>';
}
echo '</table>';

You can optimize it, but that should do.