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 ),
); 

Solution 1:

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; ?>

Solution 2:

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);
?>