Multidimensional array issue

[Jake Lees]

JSON based array of objects doesn't work. Placing each of the objects in quotation marks helps.. but doesn't help when it comes to iterating over the objects as well.

$arrayVar = [{'id':'1','catName':'Candles'},{'id':'2','catName':'Greeting Cards'},{'id':'4','catName':'Bath Bombs'},{'id':'6','catName':'Category Name'},{'id':'7','catName':'Category Test'}]

ul
  each $item in $arrayVar
    li= $item

Something similar would be easier to perform in vanilla jade, but I'm not entirely sure of the syntax here on tale-jade. I'd like to be able to do the following:

$arrayVar = [{'id':'1','catName':'Candles'},{'id':'2','catName':'Greeting Cards'},{'id':'4','catName':'Bath Bombs'},{'id':'6','catName':'Category Name'},{'id':'7','catName':'Category Test'}]

select#slectID
  each $item in $arrayVar
    option(value= $item.id)= $item.catName

[Yami Odymel]

Just a notice that tale-jade is not a Jade for PHP (If you don't know it),

and tale-jade use original PHP syntax usually, not sure how to explain it,

but tale-jade like to make the variables stay originally instead of compile (or modifiy?) them,

in your first example, you can only do this with

$arrayVar = [['id' => 1, 'catName' => 'Candles'], ['id' => '2', 'catName' => 'Greeting Cards'], ['id':'4','catName':'Bath Bombs'], ['id' => '6', 'catName' => 'Category Name'], ['id' => '7', 'catName' => 'Category Test']]

and the each loop

In Jade

select#slectID
  each $item in $arrayVar
    option(value= $item.id)= $item.catName

In Tale-Jade

select#slectID
  each $item in $arrayVar
    option(value= $item['id'])= $item['catName']

[Jake Lees]

Ahh right~ The main issue I was apparently having was the formatting of arrays. I figured it was more like Jade, so I was converting an already multidimensional php array into JSON. Seeing as it prefers PHP style variables and arrays, I was able to just pass in the array and use it directly without any conversion.