Displaying a multi-dimensional array and accumulating totals
How to properly display data from a multi-dimensional array has been a classic problem for any web developer. For illustration, assume you wish to display a list of customers and their purchases. For each customer, you wish to show their name, phone number, account balance, and so on. This already represents a two dimensional array where the x axis represents customers and the y axis represents data for that customer. Now add in purchases and you have a third axis! How can you represent a 3D model on a 2D screen? One possible solution would be to incorporate "hidden" division tags with a simple JavaScript visibility toggle.
How to do it...
- First we need to generate a 3D array from a SQL ...
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