I need to get values of array through a loop with dynamic vars.
I can't understand why the "echo" doesn’t display any result for "$TAB['b']".
Do you know why ?
The test with error message : https://3v4l.org/Fp3GT
$TAB_a = "aaaaa";
$TAB['b'] = "bbbbb";
$TAB['b']['c'] = "ccccc";
$TAB_paths = ["_a", "['b']", "['b']['c']"];
foreach ($TAB_paths as $key => $value) {
echo "\n\n\${'TAB'.$value} : "; print_r(${'TAB'.$value});
}
You are treating the array access characters as if they are part of the variable name. They are not.
So if you have an array $TAB = array('b' => 'something');, the variable name is $TAB. When you do ${'TAB'.$value}, you're looking for a variable that's actually named $TAB['b'], which you don't have.
Since you say that you just want to be able to access array indexes dynamically based on the values in another array, you just put the indexes alone (without the array access characters) in the other array.
$TAB['b'] = 'bbbbbb';
$TAB['c'] = 'cccccc';
$TAB_paths = array('b', 'c');
foreach ($TAB_paths as $key => $value) {
echo "\n\n".'$TAB['."'$value'".'] : ' . $TAB[$value];
}
Output:
$TAB['b'] : bbbbbb
$TAB['c'] : cccccc
DEMO
It's unclear what you're trying to do, although you need to include $TAB_all in $TAB_paths:
$TAB_paths = [$TAB_all['a'], $TAB_all['aside']['nav']];
Result:
${TAB_all.aaaaa} : ${TAB_all.bbbbb} :
Not certain what you're needing. My guess you need to merge two arrays into one. Easiest solution is to use the array_merge function.
$TAB_paths = array_merge($TAB_a1, $TAB_a2);
You can define the variable first
foreach ($TAB_all as $key => $value) {
${"TAB_all" . $key} = $value;
}
Now Explore the result:
foreach ($TAB_all as $key => $value) {
print_r(${"TAB_all" . $key});
}
Related
I need to merge/join multiple json string that contains arrays (which also need to be merged) but I don't know what is the best way to achieve this :
Initial array of json strings (called $rrDatas in my example below):
Array
(
[0] => {"asset":[1],"person":[1]}
[1] => {"asset":[2]}
)
Expected result :
{"asset":[1,2],"person":[1]}
The main difficulty is that the number of arrays is undefined (my example is made with 2 arrays but it could be 3,4 etc.). The second difficulty is that there can be multiple properties (like "asset", "person" etc. however always arrays). These possible properties are known but are many so it would be better if the algorithm is dynamic.
What I am able to do at the moment :
$mergedAssets['asset'] = [];
foreach ($rrDatas as $rrData)
{
$rrDataJson = \GuzzleHttp\json_decode($rrData, true);
$mergedAssets['asset'] = array_merge($mergedAssets['asset'],$rrDataJson['asset']);
}
$result = \GuzzleHttp\json_encode($mergedAssets, true);
Result :
{"asset":[1,2]}
This works well but this is not dynamic, should I duplicate this part for each possible properties (i.e. "person", etc.) ?
Thanks,
Guillaume
Edit : Brett Gregson's and krylov123's answers below helped me build my own solution which is a mix between both suggestion:
$mergedJson = [];
foreach ($rrDatas as $rrData)
{
$rrDataJson = \GuzzleHttp\json_decode($rrData, true);
foreach(array_keys($rrDataJson) as $property)
{
$mergedJson[$property] = array_merge($mergedJson[$property] ?? [], $rrDataJson[$property]);
}
}
return \GuzzleHttp\json_encode($mergedJson, true);
Find below a better example :
$rrDatas = Array (
[0] => {"asset":[1,2],"person":[1],"passive":[1]}
[1] => {"asset":[3],"charge":[1],"passive":[2]}
)
Which must result in :
{"asset":[1,2,3],"person":[1],"passive":[1,2],"charge":[1]}
Edit 2 : I have just tried Progrock's solution and it seems to work perfectly as well : https://3v4l.org/7hSqi
You can use something like:
$output = []; // Prepare empty output
foreach($rrDatas as $inner){
foreach($inner as $key => $value){
$output[$key][] = $value;
}
}
echo json_encode($output); // {"asset":[1,2],"person":[1]}
Which should give you the desired output. This should work regardless of the keys within the individual arrays and even with empty arrays.
Working example here
Another example with more arrays and more keys and empty arrays
<?php
$array =
[
'{"asset":[1],"person":[1]}',
'{"asset":[2]}',
];
$array = array_map(function($v) { return json_decode($v, true);}, $array);
$merged = array_merge_recursive(...$array);
print json_encode($merged);
Output:
{"asset":[1,2],"person":[1]}
You need to use foreach ($array as $key => $value) iteration, to be able to dynamicaly use keys of your json array (e.g. "asset" and "person").
Solution:
$mergedAssets['asset'] = [];
foreach ($rrDatas as $key => $value)
{
$rrDataJson = \GuzzleHttp\json_decode($value, true);
$mergedAssets[$key] = array_merge($mergedAssets[$key],$rrDataJson[$key]);
}
$result = \GuzzleHttp\json_encode($mergedAssets, true);
I have an array composed of files of a folder.
When I use the following snippet :
foreach($myarray as $key => $value)
{
echo $value. "<br>";
}
I have the following output :
vendor/templates/File1.docx
vendor/templates/File2.docx
vendor/templates/File3.docx
My question is : how to make it to put each value of my array in a new variable ? How to make it automatically if I have e.g 100 files in my folder ?
Actually I'd like to have (if my array is only composed of 3 items) :
$a = 'vendor/templates/File1.docx'
$b = 'vendor/templates/File2.docx'
$c = 'vendor/templates/File3.docx'
I guess I should use a loop but after many tests, I'm still getting stuck..
Have you any ideas ?
Thanks !!
Here is the solution:
<?php
$myarray = ['vendor/templates/File1.docx', 'vendor/templates/File2.docx', 'vendor/templates/File3.docx'];
foreach($myarray as $key => $value)
{
$varname = "var".$key;
$$varname = $value;
}
echo $var0."\n";
echo $var1."\n";
echo $var2."\n";
->
vendor/templates/File1.docx
vendor/templates/File2.docx
vendor/templates/File3.docx
May be following function will work for your problem.
extract($array);
http://php.net/extract
Upon posting a form using _GET I would like to get the input name
See below part of url upon submit
.php?14=0&15=0&16=0&17=0&18=0&19=0
I know how to get the variable E.G:
$14=$_GET["14"];
Which is 0
However is it possible to do this and get the input name (eg 14) and then turn these into variables? (To save the input name to the DB)
To get all the $_GET parameters, you can do:
foreach($_GET as $key => $value){
echo "Key is $key and value is $value<br>";
}
This will output each key (14, 15, 16 etc) and value (0, 0, 0 etc).
To bind a variable name with a variable string, look at variable variables:
foreach($_GET as $key => $value){
$$key = $value;
}
As a result, you will have the following variables with the following values:
$14 = 0;
$15 = 0;
$16 = 0;
// etc...
Alternatively (as you don't necessarily know what the key/value pairs would be), you could create an empty array and add these keys and values to it:
foreach($_GET as $k => $v){
$arr[$k] = $v;
}
The resulting array will be:
$arr[14] = 0;
$arr[15] = 0;
$arr[16] = 0;
// etc...
Solution using single loop (Update):
If you're just using question/answer single time you can do it in single loop like this,
<?php
foreach($_GET as $key => $value){
$question = $key;
$answer = $value;
// Save question and answer accordingly.
}
If you will be using question answer to perform other things, use the following method.
You can get all the keys using array_keys(), where $_GET is an array.
Use it like this,
<?php
$keys=array_keys($_GET);
print_r($keys); // this will print all the keys
foreach($keys as $key) {
// access each key here with $key
}
Update:
You can make a pair of question,answer array and put it in the main array to insert it in the database like this,
<?php
$mainArray=array();
$keys=array_keys($_GET);
foreach($keys as $key) {
// access each key here with $key
$questionAnswerArray=array();
$questionAnswerArray["question"]=$key;
$questionAnswerArray["answer"]=$_GET[$key];
$mainArray[]=$questionAnswerArray;
}
// Now traverse this array to insert the data in database.
foreach($mainArray as $questionanswer) {
echo $questionanswer["question"]; //prints the question
echo $questionanswer["answer"]; // prints the answer.
}
I have an array of dictionnaries like:
$arr = array(
array(
'id' => '1',
'name' => 'machin',
),
array(
'id' => '2',
'name' => 'chouette',
),
);
How can I find the name of the array containing the id 2 (chouette) ?
Am I forced to reindex the array ?
Thank you all, aparently I'm forced to loop through the array (what I wanted to avoid), I thought that it were some lookup fonctions like Python. So I think I'll reindex with id.
Just find the index of array that contains the id you want to find.
SO has enough questions and answers on this topic available.
Assuming you have a big array with lots of data in your real application, it might be too slow (for your taste). In this case, you indeed need to modify the structure of your arrays, so you can look it up faster, e.g. by using the id as an index for the name (if you are only interested in the name).
As a for loop would be the best way to do this, I would suggest changing you array so that the id is the arrays index. For example:
$arr = array(
1 => 'machin',
2 => 'chouette',
);
This way you could just get the name for calling $arr[2]. No looping and keeping your program running in linear time.
$name;
foreach ($arr as $value){
if ( $value['id'] == 2 ){
$name = $value['name'];
break;
}
}
I would say that it might be very helpful to reindex the information. If the ID is unique try something like this:
$newarr = array();
for($i = 0;$i < count($arr);$i++){ $newarr[$arr[$i]['id']] = $arr[$i]['name']; }
The result would be:
$newarr = array('1'=>'machin','2'=>'chouette');
Then you can go trough the array with "foreach" like this:
foreach($newarr as $key => $value){
if($value == "machin"){
return $key;
}
}
But of course the same would work with your old array:
foreach($arr as $item){
if($item['name'] == "machin"){
return $item['id'];
}
}
It depends on what you are planning to do with the array ;-)
array_key_exist() is the function to check for keys. foreach will help you get down in the multidimensional array. This function will help you get the name element of an array and let you specify a different id value.
function findKey($bigArray, $idxVal) {
foreach($bigArray as $array) {
if(array_key_exists('id', $array) && $array['id'] == $idxVal) {
return $array['name'];
}
}
return false;
}
//Supply your array for $arr
print(findKey($arr, '2')); //"chouette"
It's a bit crude, but this would get you the name...
$name = false;
foreach($arr as $v) {
if($v['id'] == '2') {
$name = $v['name'];
break;
}
}
echo $name;
So no, you are not forced to reindex the array, but it would make things easier.
I am calling a function like:
get(array('id_person' => $person, 'ot' => $ot ));
In function How can I access the key and value as they are variable?
function get($where=array()) {
echo where[0];
echo where[1];
}
How to extract 'id_person' => $person, 'ot' => $ot without using foreach as I know how many key-values pairs I have inside function?
You can access them via $where['id_person'] / $where['ot'] if you know that they will always have these keys.
If you want to access the first and second element, you can do it like this
reset($where)
$first = current($where);
$second = next($where);
Couple ways. If you know what keys to expect, you can directly address $where['id_person']; Or you can extract them as local variables:
function get($where=array()) {
extract($where);
echo $id_person;
}
If you don't know what to expect, just loop through them:
foreach($where AS $key => $value) {
echo "I found $key which is $value!";
}
Just do $where['id_person'] and $where['ot'] like you do in JavaScript.
If you do not care about keys and want to use array as ordered array you can shift it.
function get($where=array()) {
$value1 = array_shift($where);
$value2 = array_shift($where);
}