I have a session variable named $_SESSION['items'] that is an array. It stores items in arrays, inside its array. For example:
Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => 2 [1] => 1 ) )
This show that there is 1 of product 2 in the items array.
Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => 2 [1] => 1 ) [1] => Array ( [0] => 4 [1] => 1 ) )
This shows that there is 1 of item 2, and 1 of item 4 in the items array..
How so I check if a specific variable is in the items array? For example, i need to know if item 4 or item 1 is in this array so I can show the user a different page depending on if they have this item in their array or not. I get so confused with arrays that I always call undefined offsets and the like.
Figured it out. had a brain fart. thanks
foreach($_SESSION['items'] as $key => $item) {
if($item[0] == $item_id) {
echo "ITEM IS IN HERE";
}
}
//Try using array search good way
Try following this will help you to get the position where found and return nothing if not found
You dont need to loop through.
// this will search $item_id in $_SESSION['items']
$key = array_search($item_id, array_column($_SESSION['items'], 0)); //here 0 is position, see array_search
print_r($key);
if($key){
//yes found at key so that you can easily get that item again without looping
}
Related
As a newbie, does anyone have any good tutorials to help me understand different levels of an array? What I'm trying to learn is how to echo different levels, e.g. here is the output array:
Array
(
[meta] =>
Array
(
[total_record_count] => 1
[total_pages] => 1
[current_page] => 1
[per_page] => 1
)
[companies] =>
Array
(
[0] =>
Array
(
[id] => 291869
[url] => https://api.mattermark.com/companies/291869
[company_name] => gohenry.co.uk
[domain] => gohenry.co.uk
)
)
[total_companies] => 1
[page] => 1
[per_page] => 1
)
And here is the code to parse the array:
foreach($jsonObj as $item)
{
echo $item['total_companies'];
}
I'm really struggling to find the structure and how to output each items, e.g. tried things like:
echo $item[0]['total_companies'];
echo $item['companies'][0]['id'];
Any help or pointers would be greatly received.
Well, Lets start, You have a multi-dimensional array. For a multi-dimensional array you need to use looping e.g: for, while, foreach. For your purpose it is foreach.
Start with the array dimension, Array can be multi-dimension, Like you have multi-dimension. If you have an array like below, then it is single dimension.
array(
key => value,
key2 => value2,
key3 => value3,
...
)
Now, How can you know what is a multi-dimension array, If you array has another array as child then it is called multi-dimensional array, like below.
$array = array(
"foo" => "bar",
42 => 24,
"multi" => array(
"dimensional" => array(
"array" => "foo"
)
)
);
Its time to work with your array. Suppose you want to access the value of company_name, what should you do?? Let your array name is $arr.
First you need to use a foreach loop like:
foreach($arr as $key => $val)
The keys are (meta, companies, total_companies...), they are in the first dimension. Now check if the key is company_name or not, if it matches than you got it. Or else you need to make another loop if the $val is an array, You can check it using is_array.
By the same processing at the last element your loop executes and find your value.
Learning
Always a good idea to start with the docs:
arrays: http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php
foreach: http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php
As for tutorials, try the interactive tutorial over at codecademy: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/php
Unit 4 has a tutorial on arrays
Unit 11 has a lesson on advanced arrays.
Your code
As for your code, look at the following which I will show you your array structure and how to access each element. Perhaps that will make things clearer for you.
So lets say your array is named $myArray, see how to access each part via the comments. Keep in mind this is not php code, I'm just showing you how to access the array's different elements.
$myArray = Array
(
// $myArray['meta']
[meta] => Array (
// $myArray['meta']['total_record_count']
[total_record_count] => 1
// $myArray['meta']['total_pages']
[total_pages] => 1
// $myArray['meta']['current_page']
[current_page] => 1
// $myArray['meta']['per_page']
[per_page] => 1
)
// $myArray['companies']
[companies] => Array (
// $myArray['companies'][0]
[0] => Array (
// $myArray['companies'][0]['id']
[id] => 291869
// $myArray['companies'][0]['url']
[url] => https://api.mattermark.com/companies/291869
// $myArray['companies'][0]['company_name']
[company_name] => gohenry.co.uk
// $myArray['companies'][0]['domain']
[domain] => gohenry.co.uk
)
)
// $myArray['total_companies']
[total_companies] => 1
// $myArray['page']
[page] => 1
// $myArray['per_page']
[per_page] => 1
)
As for your for each loop
foreach($jsonObj as $item)
{
echo $item['total_companies'];
}
What the foreach loop is doing is looping through each first level of the array $jsonObj, so that would include:
meta
companies
total_companies
page
per_page
Then within the curly braces {} of the foreach loop you can refer to each level by the variable $item.
So depending on what you want to achieve you need to perhaps change your code, what is it you're trying to do as it's not really clear to me.
As for the code within the loop:
echo $item['total_companies'];
It won't work because you're trying to access an array with the index of total_companies within the first level of the $jsonObj array which doesn't exist. For it to work your array would have to look like this:
$jsonObj = array (
'0' => array ( // this is what is reference to as $item
'total_companies' => 'some value'
)
)
What you want to do is this:
foreach($jsonObj as $item)
{
echo $jsonObj['total_companies'];
}
As for your final snippet of code:
echo $item[0]['total_companies'];
Answered this above. Access it like $jsonObj['total_companies'];
echo $item['companies'][0]['id'];
If you want to loop through the companies try this:
foreach($jsonObj['companies'] as $item)
{
// now item will represent each iterable element in $jsonObj['companies]
// so we could do this:
echo $item['id'];
}
I hope that all helps! If you don't understand please make a comment and I'll update my answer.
Please take a look in to here and here
Information about php arrays
Try recursive array printing using this function:
function recursive($array){
foreach($array as $key => $value){
//If $value is an array.
if(is_array($value)){
//We need to loop through it.
recursive($value);
} else{
//It is not an array, so print it out.
echo $value, '<br>';
}
}
}
if you know how deep your array structure you can perform nested foreach loop and before every loop you have to check is_array($array_variable), like :
foreach($parent as $son)
{
if(is_array($son))
{
foreach($son as $grandson)
{
if(is_array($son))
{
foreach($grandson as $grandgrandson)
{
.....
......
.......
}
else
echo $grandson;
}
else
echo $parent;
}
else
echo $son;
}
hope it will help you to understand
How can I loop through set of session array and check if $_session['items'][1][p_alt-variation-1] and so on, are exist? the [p_alt-variation-{n}] elements are dynamic if certain item has these add-on variations, so it could be as much as more than 1
print_r($_session['items'])
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[p_name] => Hovid PetSep
[p_code] => 336910
[p_coverImg] => 14-1460428610-ulNvG.jpg
[p_id] => 14
[p_price] => 24.50
[p_qty] => 2
)
[1] => Array
(
[p_name] => X-Dot Motorbike Helmet G88 + Bogo Visor (Tinted)
[p_code] => 2102649
[p_coverImg] => 12-1460446199-wI5qx.png
[p_id] => 12
[p_price] => 68.00
[p_alt-variation-1] => Red
[p_alt-variation-2] => L
[p_qty] => 1
)
)
I want to show for user if certain item has various variations in their cart if exist, how to look for element in array if contains string like [p_alt-variation-{n}] through?
I use foreach($_SESSION['items'] as $cart_item){ ... } to loop all cart items to show item's info.
Thanks for advice.
Not a regex guru, but you could just get the keys and check using preg_grep. If it has more than one key for that keyword, just count the results.
Here's the idea:
foreach($_SESSION['items'] as $cart_item) { // loop the items
$keys = array_keys($cart_item); // get the keys of the current batch
// make the expression
$matches = preg_grep('~^p_alt\-variation\-\d+~i', $keys); // simply just checking the key name with has a number in the end, adjust to your liking
if(count($matches) > 1) { // if it has more than one, or just change this to how many do you want
echo 'has more than one variation';
}
}
If you wanted to use some of that keys, just use the results that was found inside $matches:
if(count($matches) > 1) {
foreach($matches as $matched_key) {
echo $cart_item[$matched_key];
}
}
The session variables are just like any other array values; you can always use isset function. Please refer: http://php.net/manual/en/function.isset.php
i have array like
Array
(
[1] => Array
(
[user_info] => Array
(
[id] => 1
[name] => Josh
[email] => u0001#josh.com
[watched_auctions] => 150022 150031
)
[auctions] => Array
(
[150022] => Array
(
[id] => 150022
[title] => Title of auction
[end_date] => 2013-08-28 17:50:00
[price] => 10
)
[150031] => Array
(
[id] => 150031
[title] => Title of auction №
[end_date] => 2013-08-28 16:08:03
[price] => 10
)
)
)
so i need put in <td> info from [auctions] => Array where is id,title,end_date but when i do like $Info['id'] going and put id from [user_info] when i try $Info[auctions]['id'] there is return null how to go and get [auctions] info ?
Try:
foreach( $info['auctions'] as $key=>$each ){
echo ( $each['id'] );
}
Or,
foreach( $info as $key=>$each ){
foreach( $each['auctions'] as $subKey=>$subEach ){
echo ( $subEach['id'] );
}
}
Given the data structure from your question, the correct way would be for example:
$Info[1]['auctions'][150031]['id']
$array =array();
foreach($mainArray as $innerArray){
$array[] = $innerArray['auctions'];
}
foreach($array as $key=>$val){
foreach($val as $k=>$dataVal){
# Here you will get Value of particular key
echo $dataVal[$k]['id'];
}
}
Try this code
Your question is a bit malformed. I don't know if this is due to a lacking understanding of the array structure or just that you had a hard time to explain. But basically an array in PHP never has two keys. I will try to shed some more light on the topic on a basic level and hope it helps you.
Anyway, what you have is an array of arrays. And there is no difference in how you access the contents of you array containing the arrays than accessing values in an array containing integers. The only difference is that what you get if you retrieve a value from your array, is another array. That array can you then in turn access values from just like a normal array to.
You can do all of this in "one" line if you'd like. For example
echo $array[1]["user_info"]["name"]
which would print Josh
But what actually happens is no magic.
You retrieve the element at index 1 from your array. This happens to be an array so you retrieve the element at index *user_info* from that. What you get back is also an array so you retrieve the element at index name.
So this is the same as doing
$arrayElement = $array[1];
$userInfo = $arrayElement["user_info"];
$name = $userInfo["name"];
Although this is "easier" to read and debug, the amount of code it produces sometimes makes people write the more compact version.
Since you get an array back you can also do things like iterating you array with a foreach loop and within that loop iterate each array you get from each index within the first array. This can be a quick way to iterate over multidimensional array and printing or doing some action on each element in the entire structure.
I've got an multi-dimensional array at the moment and want to remove the second-level of arrays and have the value of that second level as the new index value on the parent array. My current array is:
Array ( [0] => Array ( [connectee] => 1 ) [1] => Array ( [connectee] => 6 ) )
And want from that:
Array ( [0] => 1, [1] => 6 )
I was poking around the usort function but couldn't get it to work (where $current_connections is my array as above:
function cmp($a, $b) {
return strcmp($a["connectee"], $b["connectee"]);
}
$current_connections = usort($current_connections, "cmp");
The key doesn't need to be maintained (should be destroyed in the process).
foreach ($array as &$value) {
$value = $value['connectee'];
}
Note: Please note that the question statement is very confusing and contradicting, but this answer is based upon your statement for expected output
Array ( [0] => 1, [1] => 6 )
You could do
<?php
$values=array();
$values[0]=array("connectee"=>1);
$values[1]=array("connectee"=>6);
foreach($values as $index=>$value)
{
$values[$index]=$value["connectee"];
}
print_r($values);
?>
I have a page that searches a database and generates the following array. I'd like to be able to loop through the array and pick out the value next assigned to the key "contact_id" and do something with it, but I have no idea how to get down to that level of the array.
The array is dynamically generated, so depending on what I search for the index numbers under "values" will change accordingly.
I'm thinking I have to do a foreach starting under values, but I don't know how to start a foreach at a sublevel of an array.
Array (
[is_error] => 0
[version] => 3
[count] => 2
[values] => Array (
[556053] => Array (
[contact_id] => 556053
[contact_type] => Individual
[first_name] => Brian
[last_name] => YYY
[contact_is_deleted] => 0
)
[596945] => Array (
[contact_id] => 596945
[contact_type] => Individual
[first_name] => Brian
[last_name] => XXX
[contact_is_deleted] => 0
)
)
)
I've looked at the following post, but it seems to only address the situation where the array indices are sequential.
Multidimensional array - how to get specific values from sub-array
Any ideas?
Brian
You are correct in your assumption. You could do something like this:
foreach($array['values'] as $key => $values) {
print $values['contact_id'];
}
That should demonstrate starting at a sub level. I would also add in your checks to see if its empty and if its an array... etc.
Another hint regarding syntax - if the array in your original example is called $a, then the values you want are here:
$a['values'][556053]['contact_id']
and here:
$a['values'][596945]['contact_id']
So if there's no additional structure in your array, then this loop is probably what you want:
foreach ($a['values'] as $toplevel_id => $record_data) {
print "for toplevel_id=[$toplevel_id], contact_id=[" . $record_data['contact_id'] . "]\n";
}
foreach($array['values'] as $sub_arr){
echo $sub_arr['contact_id'];
}