SilverStripe 3.1 loop associative array - arrays

Question

In SilverStripe 3.1 I have a function that loops through an array and outputs its contents.
The output it gives me is:
Layout: John
Strategy: John
Management: Martin
In this example John has more than one job.
I would like to group the jobs if a person has more than one job.
This is my desired Output:
Layout and Strategy: John
Management: Martin
//$InfoFieldArray = array('Layout' => 'John', 'Strategy' => 'John', 'Management' => 'Martin');
public function createInfoFields($InfoFieldArray){
$Info = ArrayList::create();
foreach($InfoFieldArray as $key => $value ){
$fields = new ArrayData(array('FieldName' => $key, 'Value' => $value));
$Info->push($fields);
}
return $Info;
}
How do I alter my function to achieve my desired output?

Answer 1

One possible solution to that is by restructuring the data before adding it to the ArrayList.
public function createInfoFields($InfoFieldArray)
{
$info = array();
foreach ($InfoFieldArray as $job => $person)
{
if (!isset($info[$person]))
{
$info[$person] = array();
}
$info[$person][] = $job;
}
$result = ArrayList::create();
foreach ($info as $person => $jobs)
{
$fields = new ArrayData(array('FieldName' => implode(' and ', $jobs), 'Value' => $person));
$result->push($fields);
}
return $result;
}
What I have done is go over the array of jobs and the person assigned and flipped it the other way around, so I have an array of people with a list of jobs. This allows me to then just call implode in PHP, joining the various jobs by the word and.
There are some potential drawbacks, if there are two people named "John", they will be treated as one as I am using the name as the array key.
Also, if there are three jobs for a person, it will list it like "Layout and Strategy and Management". To avoid that, we need to modify the second foreach loop in my code to something like this:
foreach ($info as $person => $jobs)
{
$jobString = null;
if (count($jobs) > 1)
{
$jobString = implode(', ', array_slice($jobs, 0, -1)) . ' and ' . array_pop($jobs);
}
else
{
$jobString = $jobs[0];
}
$fields = new ArrayData(array('FieldName' => $jobString, 'Value' => $person));
$result->push($fields);
}
When there is more than 1 job for a person, we want to implode (glue together) the array pieces for the $jobs array however we don't want the last element at this point. Once array is glued together, we append with with and along with the last item.