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explode an array of delimited strings into two arrays
(6 answers)
Closed 9 months ago.
I have this $array DD.MM.YYYY|XX,xxx
[0]=> string(17) "04.01.2021|26,140"
[1]=> string(17) "05.01.2021|26,225"
[2]=> string(17) "06.01.2021|26,145"
I need to create 2 more arrays from it, e.g. $array_date and $array_value.
I tried something like foreach and inside the loop use explode() function but I have no idea, I also checked some previous posts for this problem but to no avail.
Try this way:
$data = [
'04.01.2021|26,140',
'05.01.2021|26,225',
'06.01.2021|26,145'
];
function extract_array($array) {
$result = [];
foreach($array as $row) {
$values = explode("|", $row);
$result['array_date'][] = $values[0];
$result['array_value'][] = $values[1];
}
return $result;
}
print_r(extract_array($data));
// Array
// (
// [array_date] => Array
// (
// [0] => 04.01.2021
// [1] => 05.01.2021
// [2] => 06.01.2021
// )
//
// [array_value] => Array
// (
// [0] => 26,140
// [1] => 26,225
// [2] => 26,145
// )
//
// )
As you described, you can use explode inside a foreach and then populate the 2 arrays.
Assuming the format of all the strings are the same:
$array = [
"04.01.2021|26,140",
"05.01.2021|26,225",
"06.01.2021|26,145"
];
$array_date = [];
$array_value = [];
foreach($array as $value) {
$parts = explode('|', $value);
$array_date[] = $parts[0];
$array_value[] = $parts[1];
}
This should work with list():
$array = [
"04.01.2021|26,140",
"05.01.2021|26,225",
"06.01.2021|26,145"
];
$date_array = [];
$value_array = [];
foreach ( $array as $i )
{
list($date, $value) = explode("|",$i);
$date_array[] = $date;
$value_array[] = $value;
}
You can also use array_walk_recursive()
I would prefer having dates and values as part of the same array when accessing them. Instead of $array_date[key] and $array_value[key] you would have them in $array[key]['date'] and $array[key]['value']. But it depends on what you want to do with the result.
$data = array(
"04.01.2021|26,140",
"05.01.2021|26,225",
"06.01.2021|26,145"
);
array_walk_recursive($data, function($value) use (&$result){
$parts = explode('|', $value);
$result[] = array(
'date' => $parts[0],
'value' => $parts[1]
);
});
print_r($result);
This question already has answers here:
How to Flatten a Multidimensional Array?
(31 answers)
Closed 1 year ago.
It's probably beginner question but I'm going through documentation for longer time already and I can't find any solution. I thought I could use implode for each dimension and then put those strings back together with str_split to make new simple array. However I never know if the join pattern isn't also in values and so after doing str_split my original values could break.
Is there something like combine($array1, $array2) for arrays inside of multi-dimensional array?
$array = your array
$result = call_user_func_array('array_merge', $array);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($result);
REF: http://php.net/manual/en/function.call-user-func-array.php
Here is another solution (works with multi-dimensional array) :
function array_flatten($array) {
$return = array();
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
if (is_array($value)){ $return = array_merge($return, array_flatten($value));}
else {$return[$key] = $value;}
}
return $return;
}
$array = Your array
$result = array_flatten($array);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($result);
This is a one line, SUPER easy to use:
$result = array();
array_walk_recursive($original_array,function($v) use (&$result){ $result[] = $v; });
It is very easy to understand, inside the anonymous function/closure. $v is the value of your $original_array.
Use array_walk_recursive
<?php
$aNonFlat = array(
1,
2,
array(
3,
4,
5,
array(
6,
7
),
8,
9,
),
10,
11
);
$objTmp = (object) array('aFlat' => array());
array_walk_recursive($aNonFlat, create_function('&$v, $k, &$t', '$t->aFlat[] = $v;'), $objTmp);
var_dump($objTmp->aFlat);
/*
array(11) {
[0]=>
int(1)
[1]=>
int(2)
[2]=>
int(3)
[3]=>
int(4)
[4]=>
int(5)
[5]=>
int(6)
[6]=>
int(7)
[7]=>
int(8)
[8]=>
int(9)
[9]=>
int(10)
[10]=>
int(11)
}
*/
?>
Tested with PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.24 (cli) (built: Mar 16 2018 12:32:06)
If you specifically have an array of arrays that doesn't go further than one level deep (a use case I find common) you can get away with array_merge and the splat operator.
<?php
$notFlat = [[1,2],[3,4]];
$flat = array_merge(...$notFlat);
var_dump($flat);
Output:
array(4) {
[0]=>
int(1)
[1]=>
int(2)
[2]=>
int(3)
[3]=>
int(4)
}
The splat operator effectively changes the array of arrays to a list of arrays as arguments for array_merge.
// $array = your multidimensional array
$flat_array = array();
foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($array)) as $k=>$v){
$flat_array[$k] = $v;
}
Also documented:
http://www.phpro.org/examples/Flatten-Array.html
Sorry for necrobumping, but none of the provided answers did what I intuitively understood as "flattening a multidimensional array". Namely this case:
[
'a' => [
'b' => 'value',
]
]
all of the provided solutions would flatten it into just ['value'], but that loses information about the key and the depth, plus if you have another 'b' key somewhere else, it will overwrite them.
I wanted to get a result like this:
[
'a_b' => 'value',
]
array_walk_recursive doesn't pass the information about the key it's currently recursing, so I did it with just plain recursion:
function flatten($array, $prefix = '') {
$return = [];
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
if (is_array($value)) {
$return = array_merge($return, flatten($value, $prefix . $key . '_'));
} else {
$return[$prefix . $key] = $value;
}
}
return $return;
}
Modify the $prefix and '_' separator to your liking.
Playground here: https://3v4l.org/0B8hf
With PHP 7, you can use generators and generator delegation (yield from) to flatten an array:
function array_flatten_iterator (array $array) {
foreach ($array as $value) {
if (is_array($value)) {
yield from array_flatten_iterator($value);
} else {
yield $value;
}
}
}
function array_flatten (array $array) {
return iterator_to_array(array_flatten_iterator($array), false);
}
Example:
$array = [
1,
2,
[
3,
4,
5,
[
6,
7
],
8,
9,
],
10,
11,
];
var_dump(array_flatten($array));
http://3v4l.org/RU30W
A non-recursive solution (but order-destroying):
function flatten($ar) {
$toflat = array($ar);
$res = array();
while (($r = array_shift($toflat)) !== NULL) {
foreach ($r as $v) {
if (is_array($v)) {
$toflat[] = $v;
} else {
$res[] = $v;
}
}
}
return $res;
}
function flatten_array($array, $preserve_keys = 0, &$out = array()) {
# Flatten a multidimensional array to one dimension, optionally preserving keys.
#
# $array - the array to flatten
# $preserve_keys - 0 (default) to not preserve keys, 1 to preserve string keys only, 2 to preserve all keys
# $out - internal use argument for recursion
foreach($array as $key => $child)
if(is_array($child))
$out = flatten_array($child, $preserve_keys, $out);
elseif($preserve_keys + is_string($key) > 1)
$out[$key] = $child;
else
$out[] = $child;
return $out;
}
Another method from PHP's user comments (simplified) and here:
function array_flatten_recursive($array) {
if (!$array) return false;
$flat = array();
$RII = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($array));
foreach ($RII as $value) $flat[] = $value;
return $flat;
}
The big benefit of this method is that it tracks the depth of the recursion, should you need that while flattening.
This will output:
$array = array(
'A' => array('B' => array( 1, 2, 3)),
'C' => array(4, 5)
);
print_r(array_flatten_recursive($array));
#Returns:
Array (
[0] => 1
[1] => 2
[2] => 3
[3] => 4
[4] => 5
)
In PHP>=5.3 and based on Luc M's answer (the first one) you can make use of closures like this
array_walk_recursive($aNonFlat, function(&$v, $k, &$t){$t->aFlat[] = $v;}, $objTmp);
I love this because I don't have to surround the function's code with quotes like when using create_function()
Using higher-order functions (note: I'm using inline anonymous functions, which appeared in PHP 5.3):
function array_flatten($array) {
return array_reduce(
$array,
function($prev, $element) {
if (!is_array($element))
$prev[] = $element;
else
$prev = array_merge($prev, array_flatten($element));
return $prev;
},
array()
);
}
I found a simple way to convert multilevel array into one.
I use the function "http_build_query" which converts the array into a url string.
Then, split the string with explode and decode the value.
Here is a sample.
$converted = http_build_query($data);
$rows = explode('&', $converted);
$output = array();
foreach($rows AS $k => $v){
list($kk, $vv) = explode('=', $v);
$output[ urldecode($kk) ] = urldecode($vv);
}
return $output;
A new approach based on the previous example function submited by chaos, which fixes the bug of overwritting string keys in multiarrays:
# Flatten a multidimensional array to one dimension, optionally preserving keys.
# $array - the array to flatten
# $preserve_keys - 0 (default) to not preserve keys, 1 to preserve string keys only, 2 to preserve all keys
# $out - internal use argument for recursion
function flatten_array($array, $preserve_keys = 2, &$out = array(), &$last_subarray_found)
{
foreach($array as $key => $child)
{
if(is_array($child))
{
$last_subarray_found = $key;
$out = flatten_array($child, $preserve_keys, $out, $last_subarray_found);
}
elseif($preserve_keys + is_string($key) > 1)
{
if ($last_subarray_found)
{
$sfinal_key_value = $last_subarray_found . "_" . $key;
}
else
{
$sfinal_key_value = $key;
}
$out[$sfinal_key_value] = $child;
}
else
{
$out[] = $child;
}
}
return $out;
}
Example:
$newarraytest = array();
$last_subarray_found = "";
$this->flatten_array($array, 2, $newarraytest, $last_subarray_found);
/*consider $mArray as multidimensional array and $sArray as single dimensional array
this code will ignore the parent array
*/
function flatten_array2($mArray) {
$sArray = array();
foreach ($mArray as $row) {
if ( !(is_array($row)) ) {
if($sArray[] = $row){
}
} else {
$sArray = array_merge($sArray,flatten_array2($row));
}
}
return $sArray;
}
you can try this:
function flat_an_array($a)
{
foreach($a as $i)
{
if(is_array($i))
{
if($na) $na = array_merge($na,flat_an_array($i));
else $na = flat_an_array($i);
}
else $na[] = $i;
}
return $na;
}
If you're okay with loosing array keys, you may flatten a multi-dimensional array using a recursive closure as a callback that utilizes array_values(), making sure that this callback is a parameter for array_walk(), as follows.
<?php
$array = [1,2,3,[5,6,7]];
$nu_array = null;
$callback = function ( $item ) use(&$callback, &$nu_array) {
if (!is_array($item)) {
$nu_array[] = $item;
}
else
if ( is_array( $item ) ) {
foreach( array_values($item) as $v) {
if ( !(is_array($v))) {
$nu_array[] = $v;
}
else
{
$callback( $v );
continue;
}
}
}
};
array_walk($array, $callback);
print_r($nu_array);
The one drawback of the preceding example is that it involves writing far more code than the following solution which uses array_walk_recursive() along with a simplified callback:
<?php
$array = [1,2,3,[5,6,7]];
$nu_array = [];
array_walk_recursive($array, function ( $item ) use(&$nu_array )
{
$nu_array[] = $item;
}
);
print_r($nu_array);
See live code
This example seems preferable to the previous one, hiding the details about how values are extracted from a multidimensional array. Surely, iteration occurs, but whether it entails recursion or control structure(s), you'll only know from perusing array.c. Since functional programming focuses on input and output rather than the minutiae of obtaining a result, surely one can remain unconcerned about how behind-the-scenes iteration occurs, that is until a perspective employer poses such a question.
You can use the flatten function from Non-standard PHP library (NSPL). It works with arrays and any iterable data structures.
assert([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] === flatten([[1, [2, [3]]], [[[4, 5, 6]]], 7, 8, [9]]));
Simple approach..See it via recursion..
<?php
function flatten_array($simple){
static $outputs=array();
foreach ( $simple as $value)
{
if(is_array($value)){
flatten_array($value);
}
else{
$outputs[]=$value;
}
}
return $outputs;
}
$eg=['s'=>['p','n'=>['t']]];
$out=flatten_array($eg);
print_r($out);
?>
Someone might find this useful, I had a problem flattening array at some dimension, I would call it last dimension so for example, if I have array like:
array (
'germany' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'bmw' =>
array (
0 => 'm4',
1 => 'x3',
2 => 'x8',
),
),
),
'france' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'peugeot' =>
array (
0 => '206',
1 => '3008',
2 => '5008',
),
),
),
)
Or:
array (
'earth' =>
array (
'germany' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'bmw' =>
array (
0 => 'm4',
1 => 'x3',
2 => 'x8',
),
),
),
),
'mars' =>
array (
'france' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'peugeot' =>
array (
0 => '206',
1 => '3008',
2 => '5008',
),
),
),
),
)
For both of these arrays when I call method below I get result:
array (
0 =>
array (
0 => 'm4',
1 => 'x3',
2 => 'x8',
),
1 =>
array (
0 => '206',
1 => '3008',
2 => '5008',
),
)
So I am flattening to last array dimension which should stay the same, method below could be refactored to actually stop at any kind of level:
function flattenAggregatedArray($aggregatedArray) {
$final = $lvls = [];
$counter = 1;
$lvls[$counter] = $aggregatedArray;
$elem = current($aggregatedArray);
while ($elem){
while(is_array($elem)){
$counter++;
$lvls[$counter] = $elem;
$elem = current($elem);
}
$final[] = $lvls[$counter];
$elem = next($lvls[--$counter]);
while ( $elem == null){
if (isset($lvls[$counter-1])){
$elem = next($lvls[--$counter]);
}
else{
return $final;
}
}
}
}
If you're interested in just the values for one particular key, you might find this approach useful:
function valuelist($array, $array_column) {
$return = array();
foreach($array AS $row){
$return[]=$row[$array_column];
};
return $return;
};
Example:
Given $get_role_action=
array(3) {
[0]=>
array(2) {
["ACTION_CD"]=>
string(12) "ADD_DOCUMENT"
["ACTION_REASON"]=>
NULL
}
[1]=>
array(2) {
["ACTION_CD"]=>
string(13) "LINK_DOCUMENT"
["ACTION_REASON"]=>
NULL
}
[2]=>
array(2) {
["ACTION_CD"]=>
string(15) "UNLINK_DOCUMENT"
["ACTION_REASON"]=>
NULL
}
}
than $variables['role_action_list']=valuelist($get_role_action, 'ACTION_CD'); would result in:
$variables["role_action_list"]=>
array(3) {
[0]=>
string(12) "ADD_DOCUMENT"
[1]=>
string(13) "LINK_DOCUMENT"
[2]=>
string(15) "UNLINK_DOCUMENT"
}
From there you can perform value look-ups like so:
if( in_array('ADD_DOCUMENT', $variables['role_action_list']) ){
//do something
};
any of this didnt work for me ...
so had to run it myself.
works just fine:
function arrayFlat($arr){
$out = '';
foreach($arr as $key => $value){
if(!is_array($value)){
$out .= $value.',';
}else{
$out .= $key.',';
$out .= arrayFlat($value);
}
}
return trim($out,',');
}
$result = explode(',',arrayFlat($yourArray));
echo '<pre>';
print_r($result);
echo '</pre>';
Given multi-dimensional array and converting it into one-dimensional, can be done by unsetting all values which are having arrays and saving them into first dimension, for example:
function _flatten_array($arr) {
while ($arr) {
list($key, $value) = each($arr);
is_array($value) ? $arr = $value : $out[$key] = $value;
unset($arr[$key]);
}
return (array)$out;
}
This question already has answers here:
How to Flatten a Multidimensional Array?
(31 answers)
Closed 1 year ago.
It's probably beginner question but I'm going through documentation for longer time already and I can't find any solution. I thought I could use implode for each dimension and then put those strings back together with str_split to make new simple array. However I never know if the join pattern isn't also in values and so after doing str_split my original values could break.
Is there something like combine($array1, $array2) for arrays inside of multi-dimensional array?
$array = your array
$result = call_user_func_array('array_merge', $array);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($result);
REF: http://php.net/manual/en/function.call-user-func-array.php
Here is another solution (works with multi-dimensional array) :
function array_flatten($array) {
$return = array();
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
if (is_array($value)){ $return = array_merge($return, array_flatten($value));}
else {$return[$key] = $value;}
}
return $return;
}
$array = Your array
$result = array_flatten($array);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($result);
This is a one line, SUPER easy to use:
$result = array();
array_walk_recursive($original_array,function($v) use (&$result){ $result[] = $v; });
It is very easy to understand, inside the anonymous function/closure. $v is the value of your $original_array.
Use array_walk_recursive
<?php
$aNonFlat = array(
1,
2,
array(
3,
4,
5,
array(
6,
7
),
8,
9,
),
10,
11
);
$objTmp = (object) array('aFlat' => array());
array_walk_recursive($aNonFlat, create_function('&$v, $k, &$t', '$t->aFlat[] = $v;'), $objTmp);
var_dump($objTmp->aFlat);
/*
array(11) {
[0]=>
int(1)
[1]=>
int(2)
[2]=>
int(3)
[3]=>
int(4)
[4]=>
int(5)
[5]=>
int(6)
[6]=>
int(7)
[7]=>
int(8)
[8]=>
int(9)
[9]=>
int(10)
[10]=>
int(11)
}
*/
?>
Tested with PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.24 (cli) (built: Mar 16 2018 12:32:06)
If you specifically have an array of arrays that doesn't go further than one level deep (a use case I find common) you can get away with array_merge and the splat operator.
<?php
$notFlat = [[1,2],[3,4]];
$flat = array_merge(...$notFlat);
var_dump($flat);
Output:
array(4) {
[0]=>
int(1)
[1]=>
int(2)
[2]=>
int(3)
[3]=>
int(4)
}
The splat operator effectively changes the array of arrays to a list of arrays as arguments for array_merge.
// $array = your multidimensional array
$flat_array = array();
foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($array)) as $k=>$v){
$flat_array[$k] = $v;
}
Also documented:
http://www.phpro.org/examples/Flatten-Array.html
Sorry for necrobumping, but none of the provided answers did what I intuitively understood as "flattening a multidimensional array". Namely this case:
[
'a' => [
'b' => 'value',
]
]
all of the provided solutions would flatten it into just ['value'], but that loses information about the key and the depth, plus if you have another 'b' key somewhere else, it will overwrite them.
I wanted to get a result like this:
[
'a_b' => 'value',
]
array_walk_recursive doesn't pass the information about the key it's currently recursing, so I did it with just plain recursion:
function flatten($array, $prefix = '') {
$return = [];
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
if (is_array($value)) {
$return = array_merge($return, flatten($value, $prefix . $key . '_'));
} else {
$return[$prefix . $key] = $value;
}
}
return $return;
}
Modify the $prefix and '_' separator to your liking.
Playground here: https://3v4l.org/0B8hf
With PHP 7, you can use generators and generator delegation (yield from) to flatten an array:
function array_flatten_iterator (array $array) {
foreach ($array as $value) {
if (is_array($value)) {
yield from array_flatten_iterator($value);
} else {
yield $value;
}
}
}
function array_flatten (array $array) {
return iterator_to_array(array_flatten_iterator($array), false);
}
Example:
$array = [
1,
2,
[
3,
4,
5,
[
6,
7
],
8,
9,
],
10,
11,
];
var_dump(array_flatten($array));
http://3v4l.org/RU30W
A non-recursive solution (but order-destroying):
function flatten($ar) {
$toflat = array($ar);
$res = array();
while (($r = array_shift($toflat)) !== NULL) {
foreach ($r as $v) {
if (is_array($v)) {
$toflat[] = $v;
} else {
$res[] = $v;
}
}
}
return $res;
}
function flatten_array($array, $preserve_keys = 0, &$out = array()) {
# Flatten a multidimensional array to one dimension, optionally preserving keys.
#
# $array - the array to flatten
# $preserve_keys - 0 (default) to not preserve keys, 1 to preserve string keys only, 2 to preserve all keys
# $out - internal use argument for recursion
foreach($array as $key => $child)
if(is_array($child))
$out = flatten_array($child, $preserve_keys, $out);
elseif($preserve_keys + is_string($key) > 1)
$out[$key] = $child;
else
$out[] = $child;
return $out;
}
Another method from PHP's user comments (simplified) and here:
function array_flatten_recursive($array) {
if (!$array) return false;
$flat = array();
$RII = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($array));
foreach ($RII as $value) $flat[] = $value;
return $flat;
}
The big benefit of this method is that it tracks the depth of the recursion, should you need that while flattening.
This will output:
$array = array(
'A' => array('B' => array( 1, 2, 3)),
'C' => array(4, 5)
);
print_r(array_flatten_recursive($array));
#Returns:
Array (
[0] => 1
[1] => 2
[2] => 3
[3] => 4
[4] => 5
)
In PHP>=5.3 and based on Luc M's answer (the first one) you can make use of closures like this
array_walk_recursive($aNonFlat, function(&$v, $k, &$t){$t->aFlat[] = $v;}, $objTmp);
I love this because I don't have to surround the function's code with quotes like when using create_function()
Using higher-order functions (note: I'm using inline anonymous functions, which appeared in PHP 5.3):
function array_flatten($array) {
return array_reduce(
$array,
function($prev, $element) {
if (!is_array($element))
$prev[] = $element;
else
$prev = array_merge($prev, array_flatten($element));
return $prev;
},
array()
);
}
I found a simple way to convert multilevel array into one.
I use the function "http_build_query" which converts the array into a url string.
Then, split the string with explode and decode the value.
Here is a sample.
$converted = http_build_query($data);
$rows = explode('&', $converted);
$output = array();
foreach($rows AS $k => $v){
list($kk, $vv) = explode('=', $v);
$output[ urldecode($kk) ] = urldecode($vv);
}
return $output;
A new approach based on the previous example function submited by chaos, which fixes the bug of overwritting string keys in multiarrays:
# Flatten a multidimensional array to one dimension, optionally preserving keys.
# $array - the array to flatten
# $preserve_keys - 0 (default) to not preserve keys, 1 to preserve string keys only, 2 to preserve all keys
# $out - internal use argument for recursion
function flatten_array($array, $preserve_keys = 2, &$out = array(), &$last_subarray_found)
{
foreach($array as $key => $child)
{
if(is_array($child))
{
$last_subarray_found = $key;
$out = flatten_array($child, $preserve_keys, $out, $last_subarray_found);
}
elseif($preserve_keys + is_string($key) > 1)
{
if ($last_subarray_found)
{
$sfinal_key_value = $last_subarray_found . "_" . $key;
}
else
{
$sfinal_key_value = $key;
}
$out[$sfinal_key_value] = $child;
}
else
{
$out[] = $child;
}
}
return $out;
}
Example:
$newarraytest = array();
$last_subarray_found = "";
$this->flatten_array($array, 2, $newarraytest, $last_subarray_found);
/*consider $mArray as multidimensional array and $sArray as single dimensional array
this code will ignore the parent array
*/
function flatten_array2($mArray) {
$sArray = array();
foreach ($mArray as $row) {
if ( !(is_array($row)) ) {
if($sArray[] = $row){
}
} else {
$sArray = array_merge($sArray,flatten_array2($row));
}
}
return $sArray;
}
you can try this:
function flat_an_array($a)
{
foreach($a as $i)
{
if(is_array($i))
{
if($na) $na = array_merge($na,flat_an_array($i));
else $na = flat_an_array($i);
}
else $na[] = $i;
}
return $na;
}
If you're okay with loosing array keys, you may flatten a multi-dimensional array using a recursive closure as a callback that utilizes array_values(), making sure that this callback is a parameter for array_walk(), as follows.
<?php
$array = [1,2,3,[5,6,7]];
$nu_array = null;
$callback = function ( $item ) use(&$callback, &$nu_array) {
if (!is_array($item)) {
$nu_array[] = $item;
}
else
if ( is_array( $item ) ) {
foreach( array_values($item) as $v) {
if ( !(is_array($v))) {
$nu_array[] = $v;
}
else
{
$callback( $v );
continue;
}
}
}
};
array_walk($array, $callback);
print_r($nu_array);
The one drawback of the preceding example is that it involves writing far more code than the following solution which uses array_walk_recursive() along with a simplified callback:
<?php
$array = [1,2,3,[5,6,7]];
$nu_array = [];
array_walk_recursive($array, function ( $item ) use(&$nu_array )
{
$nu_array[] = $item;
}
);
print_r($nu_array);
See live code
This example seems preferable to the previous one, hiding the details about how values are extracted from a multidimensional array. Surely, iteration occurs, but whether it entails recursion or control structure(s), you'll only know from perusing array.c. Since functional programming focuses on input and output rather than the minutiae of obtaining a result, surely one can remain unconcerned about how behind-the-scenes iteration occurs, that is until a perspective employer poses such a question.
You can use the flatten function from Non-standard PHP library (NSPL). It works with arrays and any iterable data structures.
assert([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] === flatten([[1, [2, [3]]], [[[4, 5, 6]]], 7, 8, [9]]));
Simple approach..See it via recursion..
<?php
function flatten_array($simple){
static $outputs=array();
foreach ( $simple as $value)
{
if(is_array($value)){
flatten_array($value);
}
else{
$outputs[]=$value;
}
}
return $outputs;
}
$eg=['s'=>['p','n'=>['t']]];
$out=flatten_array($eg);
print_r($out);
?>
Someone might find this useful, I had a problem flattening array at some dimension, I would call it last dimension so for example, if I have array like:
array (
'germany' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'bmw' =>
array (
0 => 'm4',
1 => 'x3',
2 => 'x8',
),
),
),
'france' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'peugeot' =>
array (
0 => '206',
1 => '3008',
2 => '5008',
),
),
),
)
Or:
array (
'earth' =>
array (
'germany' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'bmw' =>
array (
0 => 'm4',
1 => 'x3',
2 => 'x8',
),
),
),
),
'mars' =>
array (
'france' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'peugeot' =>
array (
0 => '206',
1 => '3008',
2 => '5008',
),
),
),
),
)
For both of these arrays when I call method below I get result:
array (
0 =>
array (
0 => 'm4',
1 => 'x3',
2 => 'x8',
),
1 =>
array (
0 => '206',
1 => '3008',
2 => '5008',
),
)
So I am flattening to last array dimension which should stay the same, method below could be refactored to actually stop at any kind of level:
function flattenAggregatedArray($aggregatedArray) {
$final = $lvls = [];
$counter = 1;
$lvls[$counter] = $aggregatedArray;
$elem = current($aggregatedArray);
while ($elem){
while(is_array($elem)){
$counter++;
$lvls[$counter] = $elem;
$elem = current($elem);
}
$final[] = $lvls[$counter];
$elem = next($lvls[--$counter]);
while ( $elem == null){
if (isset($lvls[$counter-1])){
$elem = next($lvls[--$counter]);
}
else{
return $final;
}
}
}
}
If you're interested in just the values for one particular key, you might find this approach useful:
function valuelist($array, $array_column) {
$return = array();
foreach($array AS $row){
$return[]=$row[$array_column];
};
return $return;
};
Example:
Given $get_role_action=
array(3) {
[0]=>
array(2) {
["ACTION_CD"]=>
string(12) "ADD_DOCUMENT"
["ACTION_REASON"]=>
NULL
}
[1]=>
array(2) {
["ACTION_CD"]=>
string(13) "LINK_DOCUMENT"
["ACTION_REASON"]=>
NULL
}
[2]=>
array(2) {
["ACTION_CD"]=>
string(15) "UNLINK_DOCUMENT"
["ACTION_REASON"]=>
NULL
}
}
than $variables['role_action_list']=valuelist($get_role_action, 'ACTION_CD'); would result in:
$variables["role_action_list"]=>
array(3) {
[0]=>
string(12) "ADD_DOCUMENT"
[1]=>
string(13) "LINK_DOCUMENT"
[2]=>
string(15) "UNLINK_DOCUMENT"
}
From there you can perform value look-ups like so:
if( in_array('ADD_DOCUMENT', $variables['role_action_list']) ){
//do something
};
any of this didnt work for me ...
so had to run it myself.
works just fine:
function arrayFlat($arr){
$out = '';
foreach($arr as $key => $value){
if(!is_array($value)){
$out .= $value.',';
}else{
$out .= $key.',';
$out .= arrayFlat($value);
}
}
return trim($out,',');
}
$result = explode(',',arrayFlat($yourArray));
echo '<pre>';
print_r($result);
echo '</pre>';
Given multi-dimensional array and converting it into one-dimensional, can be done by unsetting all values which are having arrays and saving them into first dimension, for example:
function _flatten_array($arr) {
while ($arr) {
list($key, $value) = each($arr);
is_array($value) ? $arr = $value : $out[$key] = $value;
unset($arr[$key]);
}
return (array)$out;
}
This question already has answers here:
How to Flatten a Multidimensional Array?
(31 answers)
Closed 1 year ago.
It's probably beginner question but I'm going through documentation for longer time already and I can't find any solution. I thought I could use implode for each dimension and then put those strings back together with str_split to make new simple array. However I never know if the join pattern isn't also in values and so after doing str_split my original values could break.
Is there something like combine($array1, $array2) for arrays inside of multi-dimensional array?
$array = your array
$result = call_user_func_array('array_merge', $array);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($result);
REF: http://php.net/manual/en/function.call-user-func-array.php
Here is another solution (works with multi-dimensional array) :
function array_flatten($array) {
$return = array();
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
if (is_array($value)){ $return = array_merge($return, array_flatten($value));}
else {$return[$key] = $value;}
}
return $return;
}
$array = Your array
$result = array_flatten($array);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($result);
This is a one line, SUPER easy to use:
$result = array();
array_walk_recursive($original_array,function($v) use (&$result){ $result[] = $v; });
It is very easy to understand, inside the anonymous function/closure. $v is the value of your $original_array.
Use array_walk_recursive
<?php
$aNonFlat = array(
1,
2,
array(
3,
4,
5,
array(
6,
7
),
8,
9,
),
10,
11
);
$objTmp = (object) array('aFlat' => array());
array_walk_recursive($aNonFlat, create_function('&$v, $k, &$t', '$t->aFlat[] = $v;'), $objTmp);
var_dump($objTmp->aFlat);
/*
array(11) {
[0]=>
int(1)
[1]=>
int(2)
[2]=>
int(3)
[3]=>
int(4)
[4]=>
int(5)
[5]=>
int(6)
[6]=>
int(7)
[7]=>
int(8)
[8]=>
int(9)
[9]=>
int(10)
[10]=>
int(11)
}
*/
?>
Tested with PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.24 (cli) (built: Mar 16 2018 12:32:06)
If you specifically have an array of arrays that doesn't go further than one level deep (a use case I find common) you can get away with array_merge and the splat operator.
<?php
$notFlat = [[1,2],[3,4]];
$flat = array_merge(...$notFlat);
var_dump($flat);
Output:
array(4) {
[0]=>
int(1)
[1]=>
int(2)
[2]=>
int(3)
[3]=>
int(4)
}
The splat operator effectively changes the array of arrays to a list of arrays as arguments for array_merge.
// $array = your multidimensional array
$flat_array = array();
foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($array)) as $k=>$v){
$flat_array[$k] = $v;
}
Also documented:
http://www.phpro.org/examples/Flatten-Array.html
Sorry for necrobumping, but none of the provided answers did what I intuitively understood as "flattening a multidimensional array". Namely this case:
[
'a' => [
'b' => 'value',
]
]
all of the provided solutions would flatten it into just ['value'], but that loses information about the key and the depth, plus if you have another 'b' key somewhere else, it will overwrite them.
I wanted to get a result like this:
[
'a_b' => 'value',
]
array_walk_recursive doesn't pass the information about the key it's currently recursing, so I did it with just plain recursion:
function flatten($array, $prefix = '') {
$return = [];
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
if (is_array($value)) {
$return = array_merge($return, flatten($value, $prefix . $key . '_'));
} else {
$return[$prefix . $key] = $value;
}
}
return $return;
}
Modify the $prefix and '_' separator to your liking.
Playground here: https://3v4l.org/0B8hf
With PHP 7, you can use generators and generator delegation (yield from) to flatten an array:
function array_flatten_iterator (array $array) {
foreach ($array as $value) {
if (is_array($value)) {
yield from array_flatten_iterator($value);
} else {
yield $value;
}
}
}
function array_flatten (array $array) {
return iterator_to_array(array_flatten_iterator($array), false);
}
Example:
$array = [
1,
2,
[
3,
4,
5,
[
6,
7
],
8,
9,
],
10,
11,
];
var_dump(array_flatten($array));
http://3v4l.org/RU30W
A non-recursive solution (but order-destroying):
function flatten($ar) {
$toflat = array($ar);
$res = array();
while (($r = array_shift($toflat)) !== NULL) {
foreach ($r as $v) {
if (is_array($v)) {
$toflat[] = $v;
} else {
$res[] = $v;
}
}
}
return $res;
}
function flatten_array($array, $preserve_keys = 0, &$out = array()) {
# Flatten a multidimensional array to one dimension, optionally preserving keys.
#
# $array - the array to flatten
# $preserve_keys - 0 (default) to not preserve keys, 1 to preserve string keys only, 2 to preserve all keys
# $out - internal use argument for recursion
foreach($array as $key => $child)
if(is_array($child))
$out = flatten_array($child, $preserve_keys, $out);
elseif($preserve_keys + is_string($key) > 1)
$out[$key] = $child;
else
$out[] = $child;
return $out;
}
Another method from PHP's user comments (simplified) and here:
function array_flatten_recursive($array) {
if (!$array) return false;
$flat = array();
$RII = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($array));
foreach ($RII as $value) $flat[] = $value;
return $flat;
}
The big benefit of this method is that it tracks the depth of the recursion, should you need that while flattening.
This will output:
$array = array(
'A' => array('B' => array( 1, 2, 3)),
'C' => array(4, 5)
);
print_r(array_flatten_recursive($array));
#Returns:
Array (
[0] => 1
[1] => 2
[2] => 3
[3] => 4
[4] => 5
)
In PHP>=5.3 and based on Luc M's answer (the first one) you can make use of closures like this
array_walk_recursive($aNonFlat, function(&$v, $k, &$t){$t->aFlat[] = $v;}, $objTmp);
I love this because I don't have to surround the function's code with quotes like when using create_function()
Using higher-order functions (note: I'm using inline anonymous functions, which appeared in PHP 5.3):
function array_flatten($array) {
return array_reduce(
$array,
function($prev, $element) {
if (!is_array($element))
$prev[] = $element;
else
$prev = array_merge($prev, array_flatten($element));
return $prev;
},
array()
);
}
I found a simple way to convert multilevel array into one.
I use the function "http_build_query" which converts the array into a url string.
Then, split the string with explode and decode the value.
Here is a sample.
$converted = http_build_query($data);
$rows = explode('&', $converted);
$output = array();
foreach($rows AS $k => $v){
list($kk, $vv) = explode('=', $v);
$output[ urldecode($kk) ] = urldecode($vv);
}
return $output;
A new approach based on the previous example function submited by chaos, which fixes the bug of overwritting string keys in multiarrays:
# Flatten a multidimensional array to one dimension, optionally preserving keys.
# $array - the array to flatten
# $preserve_keys - 0 (default) to not preserve keys, 1 to preserve string keys only, 2 to preserve all keys
# $out - internal use argument for recursion
function flatten_array($array, $preserve_keys = 2, &$out = array(), &$last_subarray_found)
{
foreach($array as $key => $child)
{
if(is_array($child))
{
$last_subarray_found = $key;
$out = flatten_array($child, $preserve_keys, $out, $last_subarray_found);
}
elseif($preserve_keys + is_string($key) > 1)
{
if ($last_subarray_found)
{
$sfinal_key_value = $last_subarray_found . "_" . $key;
}
else
{
$sfinal_key_value = $key;
}
$out[$sfinal_key_value] = $child;
}
else
{
$out[] = $child;
}
}
return $out;
}
Example:
$newarraytest = array();
$last_subarray_found = "";
$this->flatten_array($array, 2, $newarraytest, $last_subarray_found);
/*consider $mArray as multidimensional array and $sArray as single dimensional array
this code will ignore the parent array
*/
function flatten_array2($mArray) {
$sArray = array();
foreach ($mArray as $row) {
if ( !(is_array($row)) ) {
if($sArray[] = $row){
}
} else {
$sArray = array_merge($sArray,flatten_array2($row));
}
}
return $sArray;
}
you can try this:
function flat_an_array($a)
{
foreach($a as $i)
{
if(is_array($i))
{
if($na) $na = array_merge($na,flat_an_array($i));
else $na = flat_an_array($i);
}
else $na[] = $i;
}
return $na;
}
If you're okay with loosing array keys, you may flatten a multi-dimensional array using a recursive closure as a callback that utilizes array_values(), making sure that this callback is a parameter for array_walk(), as follows.
<?php
$array = [1,2,3,[5,6,7]];
$nu_array = null;
$callback = function ( $item ) use(&$callback, &$nu_array) {
if (!is_array($item)) {
$nu_array[] = $item;
}
else
if ( is_array( $item ) ) {
foreach( array_values($item) as $v) {
if ( !(is_array($v))) {
$nu_array[] = $v;
}
else
{
$callback( $v );
continue;
}
}
}
};
array_walk($array, $callback);
print_r($nu_array);
The one drawback of the preceding example is that it involves writing far more code than the following solution which uses array_walk_recursive() along with a simplified callback:
<?php
$array = [1,2,3,[5,6,7]];
$nu_array = [];
array_walk_recursive($array, function ( $item ) use(&$nu_array )
{
$nu_array[] = $item;
}
);
print_r($nu_array);
See live code
This example seems preferable to the previous one, hiding the details about how values are extracted from a multidimensional array. Surely, iteration occurs, but whether it entails recursion or control structure(s), you'll only know from perusing array.c. Since functional programming focuses on input and output rather than the minutiae of obtaining a result, surely one can remain unconcerned about how behind-the-scenes iteration occurs, that is until a perspective employer poses such a question.
You can use the flatten function from Non-standard PHP library (NSPL). It works with arrays and any iterable data structures.
assert([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] === flatten([[1, [2, [3]]], [[[4, 5, 6]]], 7, 8, [9]]));
Simple approach..See it via recursion..
<?php
function flatten_array($simple){
static $outputs=array();
foreach ( $simple as $value)
{
if(is_array($value)){
flatten_array($value);
}
else{
$outputs[]=$value;
}
}
return $outputs;
}
$eg=['s'=>['p','n'=>['t']]];
$out=flatten_array($eg);
print_r($out);
?>
Someone might find this useful, I had a problem flattening array at some dimension, I would call it last dimension so for example, if I have array like:
array (
'germany' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'bmw' =>
array (
0 => 'm4',
1 => 'x3',
2 => 'x8',
),
),
),
'france' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'peugeot' =>
array (
0 => '206',
1 => '3008',
2 => '5008',
),
),
),
)
Or:
array (
'earth' =>
array (
'germany' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'bmw' =>
array (
0 => 'm4',
1 => 'x3',
2 => 'x8',
),
),
),
),
'mars' =>
array (
'france' =>
array (
'cars' =>
array (
'peugeot' =>
array (
0 => '206',
1 => '3008',
2 => '5008',
),
),
),
),
)
For both of these arrays when I call method below I get result:
array (
0 =>
array (
0 => 'm4',
1 => 'x3',
2 => 'x8',
),
1 =>
array (
0 => '206',
1 => '3008',
2 => '5008',
),
)
So I am flattening to last array dimension which should stay the same, method below could be refactored to actually stop at any kind of level:
function flattenAggregatedArray($aggregatedArray) {
$final = $lvls = [];
$counter = 1;
$lvls[$counter] = $aggregatedArray;
$elem = current($aggregatedArray);
while ($elem){
while(is_array($elem)){
$counter++;
$lvls[$counter] = $elem;
$elem = current($elem);
}
$final[] = $lvls[$counter];
$elem = next($lvls[--$counter]);
while ( $elem == null){
if (isset($lvls[$counter-1])){
$elem = next($lvls[--$counter]);
}
else{
return $final;
}
}
}
}
If you're interested in just the values for one particular key, you might find this approach useful:
function valuelist($array, $array_column) {
$return = array();
foreach($array AS $row){
$return[]=$row[$array_column];
};
return $return;
};
Example:
Given $get_role_action=
array(3) {
[0]=>
array(2) {
["ACTION_CD"]=>
string(12) "ADD_DOCUMENT"
["ACTION_REASON"]=>
NULL
}
[1]=>
array(2) {
["ACTION_CD"]=>
string(13) "LINK_DOCUMENT"
["ACTION_REASON"]=>
NULL
}
[2]=>
array(2) {
["ACTION_CD"]=>
string(15) "UNLINK_DOCUMENT"
["ACTION_REASON"]=>
NULL
}
}
than $variables['role_action_list']=valuelist($get_role_action, 'ACTION_CD'); would result in:
$variables["role_action_list"]=>
array(3) {
[0]=>
string(12) "ADD_DOCUMENT"
[1]=>
string(13) "LINK_DOCUMENT"
[2]=>
string(15) "UNLINK_DOCUMENT"
}
From there you can perform value look-ups like so:
if( in_array('ADD_DOCUMENT', $variables['role_action_list']) ){
//do something
};
any of this didnt work for me ...
so had to run it myself.
works just fine:
function arrayFlat($arr){
$out = '';
foreach($arr as $key => $value){
if(!is_array($value)){
$out .= $value.',';
}else{
$out .= $key.',';
$out .= arrayFlat($value);
}
}
return trim($out,',');
}
$result = explode(',',arrayFlat($yourArray));
echo '<pre>';
print_r($result);
echo '</pre>';
Given multi-dimensional array and converting it into one-dimensional, can be done by unsetting all values which are having arrays and saving them into first dimension, for example:
function _flatten_array($arr) {
while ($arr) {
list($key, $value) = each($arr);
is_array($value) ? $arr = $value : $out[$key] = $value;
unset($arr[$key]);
}
return (array)$out;
}
I have an associative array in the form key => value where key is a numerical value, however it is not a sequential numerical value. The key is actually an ID number and the value is a count. This is fine for most instances, however I want a function that gets the human-readable name of the array and uses that for the key, without changing the value.
I didn't see a function that does this, but I'm assuming I need to provide the old key and new key (both of which I have) and transform the array. Is there an efficient way of doing this?
$arr[$newkey] = $arr[$oldkey];
unset($arr[$oldkey]);
The way you would do this and preserve the ordering of the array is by putting the array keys into a separate array, find and replace the key in that array and then combine it back with the values.
Here is a function that does just that:
function change_key( $array, $old_key, $new_key ) {
if( ! array_key_exists( $old_key, $array ) )
return $array;
$keys = array_keys( $array );
$keys[ array_search( $old_key, $keys ) ] = $new_key;
return array_combine( $keys, $array );
}
if your array is built from a database query, you can change the key directly from the mysql statement:
instead of
"select ´id´ from ´tablename´..."
use something like:
"select ´id´ **as NEWNAME** from ´tablename´..."
The answer from KernelM is nice, but in order to avoid the issue raised by Greg in the comment (conflicting keys), using a new array would be safer
$newarr[$newkey] = $oldarr[$oldkey];
$oldarr=$newarr;
unset($newarr);
$array = [
'old1' => 1
'old2' => 2
];
$renameMap = [
'old1' => 'new1',
'old2' => 'new2'
];
$array = array_combine(array_map(function($el) use ($renameMap) {
return $renameMap[$el];
}, array_keys($array)), array_values($array));
/*
$array = [
'new1' => 1
'new2' => 2
];
*/
You could use a second associative array that maps human readable names to the id's. That would also provide a Many to 1 relationship. Then do something like this:
echo 'Widgets: ' . $data[$humanreadbleMapping['Widgets']];
If you want also the position of the new array key to be the same as the old one you can do this:
function change_array_key( $array, $old_key, $new_key) {
if(!is_array($array)){ print 'You must enter a array as a haystack!'; exit; }
if(!array_key_exists($old_key, $array)){
return $array;
}
$key_pos = array_search($old_key, array_keys($array));
$arr_before = array_slice($array, 0, $key_pos);
$arr_after = array_slice($array, $key_pos + 1);
$arr_renamed = array($new_key => $array[$old_key]);
return $arr_before + $arr_renamed + $arr_after;
}
Simple benchmark comparison of both solution.
Solution 1 Copy and remove (order lost, but way faster) https://stackoverflow.com/a/240676/1617857
<?php
$array = ['test' => 'value', ['etc...']];
$array['test2'] = $array['test'];
unset($array['test']);
Solution 2 Rename the key https://stackoverflow.com/a/21299719/1617857
<?php
$array = ['test' => 'value', ['etc...']];
$keys = array_keys( $array );
$keys[array_search('test', $keys, true)] = 'test2';
array_combine( $keys, $array );
Benchmark:
<?php
$array = ['test' => 'value', ['etc...']];
for ($i =0; $i < 100000000; $i++){
// Solution 1
}
for ($i =0; $i < 100000000; $i++){
// Solution 2
}
Results:
php solution1.php 6.33s user 0.02s system 99% cpu 6.356 total
php solution1.php 6.37s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 6.390 total
php solution2.php 12.14s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 12.164 total
php solution2.php 12.57s user 0.03s system 99% cpu 12.612 total
If your array is recursive you can use this function:
test this data:
$datos = array
(
'0' => array
(
'no' => 1,
'id_maquina' => 1,
'id_transaccion' => 1276316093,
'ultimo_cambio' => 'asdfsaf',
'fecha_ultimo_mantenimiento' => 1275804000,
'mecanico_ultimo_mantenimiento' =>'asdfas',
'fecha_ultima_reparacion' => 1275804000,
'mecanico_ultima_reparacion' => 'sadfasf',
'fecha_siguiente_mantenimiento' => 1275804000,
'fecha_ultima_falla' => 0,
'total_fallas' => 0,
),
'1' => array
(
'no' => 2,
'id_maquina' => 2,
'id_transaccion' => 1276494575,
'ultimo_cambio' => 'xx',
'fecha_ultimo_mantenimiento' => 1275372000,
'mecanico_ultimo_mantenimiento' => 'xx',
'fecha_ultima_reparacion' => 1275458400,
'mecanico_ultima_reparacion' => 'xx',
'fecha_siguiente_mantenimiento' => 1275372000,
'fecha_ultima_falla' => 0,
'total_fallas' => 0,
)
);
here is the function:
function changekeyname($array, $newkey, $oldkey)
{
foreach ($array as $key => $value)
{
if (is_array($value))
$array[$key] = changekeyname($value,$newkey,$oldkey);
else
{
$array[$newkey] = $array[$oldkey];
}
}
unset($array[$oldkey]);
return $array;
}
I like KernelM's solution, but I needed something that would handle potential key conflicts (where a new key may match an existing key). Here is what I came up with:
function swapKeys( &$arr, $origKey, $newKey, &$pendingKeys ) {
if( !isset( $arr[$newKey] ) ) {
$arr[$newKey] = $arr[$origKey];
unset( $arr[$origKey] );
if( isset( $pendingKeys[$origKey] ) ) {
// recursion to handle conflicting keys with conflicting keys
swapKeys( $arr, $pendingKeys[$origKey], $origKey, $pendingKeys );
unset( $pendingKeys[$origKey] );
}
} elseif( $newKey != $origKey ) {
$pendingKeys[$newKey] = $origKey;
}
}
You can then cycle through an array like this:
$myArray = array( '1970-01-01 00:00:01', '1970-01-01 00:01:00' );
$pendingKeys = array();
foreach( $myArray as $key => $myArrayValue ) {
// NOTE: strtotime( '1970-01-01 00:00:01' ) = 1 (a conflicting key)
$timestamp = strtotime( $myArrayValue );
swapKeys( $myArray, $key, $timestamp, $pendingKeys );
}
// RESULT: $myArray == array( 1=>'1970-01-01 00:00:01', 60=>'1970-01-01 00:01:00' )
Here is a helper function to achieve that:
/**
* Helper function to rename array keys.
*/
function _rename_arr_key($oldkey, $newkey, array &$arr) {
if (array_key_exists($oldkey, $arr)) {
$arr[$newkey] = $arr[$oldkey];
unset($arr[$oldkey]);
return TRUE;
} else {
return FALSE;
}
}
pretty based on #KernelM answer.
Usage:
_rename_arr_key('oldkey', 'newkey', $my_array);
It will return true on successful rename, otherwise false.
this code will help to change the oldkey to new one
$i = 0;
$keys_array=array("0"=>"one","1"=>"two");
$keys = array_keys($keys_array);
for($i=0;$i<count($keys);$i++) {
$keys_array[$keys_array[$i]]=$keys_array[$i];
unset($keys_array[$i]);
}
print_r($keys_array);
display like
$keys_array=array("one"=>"one","two"=>"two");
Easy stuff:
this function will accept the target $hash and $replacements is also a hash containing newkey=>oldkey associations.
This function will preserve original order, but could be problematic for very large (like above 10k records) arrays regarding performance & memory.
function keyRename(array $hash, array $replacements) {
$new=array();
foreach($hash as $k=>$v)
{
if($ok=array_search($k,$replacements))
$k=$ok;
$new[$k]=$v;
}
return $new;
}
this alternative function would do the same, with far better performance & memory usage, at the cost of losing original order (which should not be a problem since it is hashtable!)
function keyRename(array $hash, array $replacements) {
foreach($hash as $k=>$v)
if($ok=array_search($k,$replacements))
{
$hash[$ok]=$v;
unset($hash[$k]);
}
return $hash;
}
This page has been peppered with a wide interpretation of what is required because there is no minimal, verifiable example in the question body. Some answers are merely trying to solve the "title" without bothering to understand the question requirements.
The key is actually an ID number and the value is a count. This is
fine for most instances, however I want a function that gets the
human-readable name of the array and uses that for the key, without
changing the value.
PHP keys cannot be changed but they can be replaced -- this is why so many answers are advising the use of array_search() (a relatively poor performer) and unset().
Ultimately, you want to create a new array with names as keys relating to the original count. This is most efficiently done via a lookup array because searching for keys will always outperform searching for values.
Code: (Demo)
$idCounts = [
3 => 15,
7 => 12,
8 => 10,
9 => 4
];
$idNames = [
1 => 'Steve',
2 => 'Georgia',
3 => 'Elon',
4 => 'Fiona',
5 => 'Tim',
6 => 'Petra',
7 => 'Quentin',
8 => 'Raymond',
9 => 'Barb'
];
$result = [];
foreach ($idCounts as $id => $count) {
if (isset($idNames[$id])) {
$result[$idNames[$id]] = $count;
}
}
var_export($result);
Output:
array (
'Elon' => 15,
'Quentin' => 12,
'Raymond' => 10,
'Barb' => 4,
)
This technique maintains the original array order (in case the sorting matters), doesn't do any unnecessary iterating, and will be very swift because of isset().
If you want to replace several keys at once (preserving order):
/**
* Rename keys of an array
* #param array $array (asoc)
* #param array $replacement_keys (indexed)
* #return array
*/
function rename_keys($array, $replacement_keys) {
return array_combine($replacement_keys, array_values($array));
}
Usage:
$myarr = array("a" => 22, "b" => 144, "c" => 43);
$newkeys = array("x","y","z");
print_r(rename_keys($myarr, $newkeys));
//must return: array("x" => 22, "y" => 144, "z" => 43);
You can use this function based on array_walk:
function mapToIDs($array, $id_field_name = 'id')
{
$result = [];
array_walk($array,
function(&$value, $key) use (&$result, $id_field_name)
{
$result[$value[$id_field_name]] = $value;
}
);
return $result;
}
$arr = [0 => ['id' => 'one', 'fruit' => 'apple'], 1 => ['id' => 'two', 'fruit' => 'banana']];
print_r($arr);
print_r(mapToIDs($arr));
It gives:
Array(
[0] => Array(
[id] => one
[fruit] => apple
)
[1] => Array(
[id] => two
[fruit] => banana
)
)
Array(
[one] => Array(
[id] => one
[fruit] => apple
)
[two] => Array(
[id] => two
[fruit] => banana
)
)
This basic function handles swapping array keys and keeping the array in the original order...
public function keySwap(array $resource, array $keys)
{
$newResource = [];
foreach($resource as $k => $r){
if(array_key_exists($k,$keys)){
$newResource[$keys[$k]] = $r;
}else{
$newResource[$k] = $r;
}
}
return $newResource;
}
You could then loop through and swap all 'a' keys with 'z' for example...
$inputs = [
0 => ['a'=>'1','b'=>'2'],
1 => ['a'=>'3','b'=>'4']
]
$keySwap = ['a'=>'z'];
foreach($inputs as $k=>$i){
$inputs[$k] = $this->keySwap($i,$keySwap);
}
This function will rename an array key, keeping its position, by combining with index searching.
function renameArrKey($arr, $oldKey, $newKey){
if(!isset($arr[$oldKey])) return $arr; // Failsafe
$keys = array_keys($arr);
$keys[array_search($oldKey, $keys)] = $newKey;
$newArr = array_combine($keys, $arr);
return $newArr;
}
Usage:
$arr = renameArrKey($arr, 'old_key', 'new_key');
this works for renaming the first key:
$a = ['catine' => 'cat', 'canine' => 'dog'];
$tmpa['feline'] = $a['catine'];
unset($a['catine']);
$a = $tmpa + $a;
then, print_r($a) renders a repaired in-order array:
Array
(
[feline] => cat
[canine] => dog
)
this works for renaming an arbitrary key:
$a = ['canine' => 'dog', 'catine' => 'cat', 'porcine' => 'pig']
$af = array_flip($a)
$af['cat'] = 'feline';
$a = array_flip($af)
print_r($a)
Array
(
[canine] => dog
[feline] => cat
[porcine] => pig
)
a generalized function:
function renameKey($oldkey, $newkey, $array) {
$val = $array[$oldkey];
$tmp_A = array_flip($array);
$tmp_A[$val] = $newkey;
return array_flip($tmp_A);
}
There is an alternative way to change the key of an array element when working with a full array - without changing the order of the array.
It's simply to copy the array into a new array.
For instance, I was working with a mixed, multi-dimensional array that contained indexed and associative keys - and I wanted to replace the integer keys with their values, without breaking the order.
I did so by switching key/value for all numeric array entries - here: ['0'=>'foo']. Note that the order is intact.
<?php
$arr = [
'foo',
'bar'=>'alfa',
'baz'=>['a'=>'hello', 'b'=>'world'],
];
foreach($arr as $k=>$v) {
$kk = is_numeric($k) ? $v : $k;
$vv = is_numeric($k) ? null : $v;
$arr2[$kk] = $vv;
}
print_r($arr2);
Output:
Array (
[foo] =>
[bar] => alfa
[baz] => Array (
[a] => hello
[b] => world
)
)
best way is using reference, and not using unset (which make another step to clean memory)
$tab = ['two' => [] ];
solution:
$tab['newname'] = & $tab['two'];
you have one original and one reference with new name.
or if you don't want have two names in one value is good make another tab and foreach on reference
foreach($tab as $key=> & $value) {
if($key=='two') {
$newtab["newname"] = & $tab[$key];
} else {
$newtab[$key] = & $tab[$key];
}
}
Iterration is better on keys than clone all array, and cleaning old array if you have long data like 100 rows +++ etc..
One which preservers ordering that's simple to understand:
function rename_array_key(array $array, $old_key, $new_key) {
if (!array_key_exists($old_key, $array)) {
return $array;
}
$new_array = [];
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
$new_key = $old_key === $key
? $new_key
: $key;
$new_array[$new_key] = $value;
}
return $new_array;
}
Here is an experiment (test)
Initial array (keys like 0,1,2)
$some_array[] = '6110';//
$some_array[] = '6111';//
$some_array[] = '6210';//
I must change key names to for example human_readable15, human_readable16, human_readable17
Something similar as already posted. During each loop i set necessary key name and remove corresponding key from the initial array.
For example, i inserted into mysql $some_array got lastInsertId and i need to send key-value pair back to jquery.
$first_id_of_inserted = 7;//lastInsertId
$last_loop_for_some_array = count($some_array);
for ($current_loop = 0; $current_loop < $last_loop_for_some_array ; $current_loop++) {
$some_array['human_readable'.($first_id_of_inserted + $current_loop)] = $some_array[$current_loop];//add new key for intial array
unset( $some_array[$current_loop] );//remove already renamed key from array
}
And here is the new array with renamed keys
echo '<pre>', print_r($some_array, true), '</pre>$some_array in '. basename(__FILE__, '.php'). '.php <br/>';
If instead of human_readable15, human_readable16, human_readable17 need something other. Then could create something like this
$arr_with_key_names[] = 'human_readable';
$arr_with_key_names[] = 'something_another';
$arr_with_key_names[] = 'and_something_else';
for ($current_loop = 0; $current_loop < $last_loop_for_some_array ; $current_loop++) {
$some_array[$arr_with_key_names[$current_loop]] = $some_array[$current_loop];//add new key for intial array
unset( $some_array[$current_loop] );//remove already renamed key from array
}
Hmm, I'm not test before, but I think this code working
function replace_array_key($data) {
$mapping = [
'old_key_1' => 'new_key_1',
'old_key_2' => 'new_key_2',
];
$data = json_encode($data);
foreach ($mapping as $needed => $replace) {
$data = str_replace('"'.$needed.'":', '"'.$replace.'":', $data);
}
return json_decode($data, true);
}
You can write simple function that applies the callback to the keys of the given array. Similar to array_map
<?php
function array_map_keys(callable $callback, array $array) {
return array_merge([], ...array_map(
function ($key, $value) use ($callback) { return [$callback($key) => $value]; },
array_keys($array),
$array
));
}
$array = ['a' => 1, 'b' => 'test', 'c' => ['x' => 1, 'y' => 2]];
$newArray = array_map_keys(function($key) { return 'new' . ucfirst($key); }, $array);
echo json_encode($array); // {"a":1,"b":"test","c":{"x":1,"y":2}}
echo json_encode($newArray); // {"newA":1,"newB":"test","newC":{"x":1,"y":2}}
Here is a gist https://gist.github.com/vardius/650367e15abfb58bcd72ca47eff096ca#file-array_map_keys-php.