PHP array_push() 2-dimensional array - php

Question

array_push($typedict[$current], "value");
Does not seem to do anything here, i output the associative array of arrays($typedict) but all of them are empty(array()). I print the current associative index out with echo to confirm that it is the correct one(it always is).
Since the print chelc at the end states "[name] => Array()" i have no clue what could be the problem as this indicates that they are indeed arrays and therefore could have stuff pushed in. Also the var $current as stated always have the correct content. at:
echo "current: ". $current;
full code:
<?php
$typedict = array();
$xsdstring = file_get_contents("infile.xsd");
$xsdstring = str_replace("xs:choice", "xs:sequence", $xsdstring);
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML(mb_convert_encoding($xsdstring, 'utf-8', mb_detect_encoding($xsdstring)));
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$xpath->registerNamespace('xs', 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema');
$xpath->registerNamespace('vc', 'http://www.w3.org/2007/XMLSchema-versioning');
function outputFormat($indent, $elementDef)
{
echo "<div>" . $indent . $elementDef->getAttribute('name')
. " type:" . $elementDef->getAttribute('type')
. " min:" . $elementDef->getAttribute('minOccurs')
. " max:" . $elementDef->getAttribute('maxOccurs')
. "</div>\n";
}
function echoElements($indent = "", $elementDef, $evaluate, &$typedict)
{
global $doc, $xpath, $current;
if($indent == "")
{
$attribute_name = $elementDef->getAttribute('name');
$typedict[$attribute_name] = array();
$current = $attribute_name;
}else{
echo "current: ". $current;
$type = $elementDef->getAttribute('name');
array_push($typedict[$current], "value");
#$typedict[$current][0] = "value";
print_r($typedict[$current]);
}
outputFormat($indent, $elementDef);
$elementDefs = $xpath->evaluate($evaluate, $elementDef);
foreach($elementDefs as $elementDef)
{
echoElements($indent . " ", $elementDef, $evaluate);
}
}
$elementDefs = $xpath->evaluate("/xs:schema/xs:element");
foreach($elementDefs as $elementDef)
{
echoElements("", $elementDef, "xs:complexType/xs:sequence/xs:element", $typedict);
}
$elementDefs = $xpath->evaluate("/xs:schema/xs:complexType");
foreach($elementDefs as $elementDef)
{
echoElements("", $elementDef, "xs:sequence/xs:element", $typedict);
}
print_r($typedict);
?>

Answer 1

$current does contain the correct value. As seen in the code i check it pretty much everytime it gets set. So im pretty confident about that part.
I do not want to change whatever is in $current as it behaves excactly as i want.
My goal is an array inside each entry of the associative array $typedict.
Example:
$typedict["whatever"][0] = "value";
$typedict["whatever"][1] = "value";
...
$current is the index of $typedict not any of it's contents. So in this case $current contains the string "whatever" and not "value". And this is how it should be.
Edit:
I think i figured out the problem. But i have no clue how this could happen and therefore can't fix it:
$typedict["whatever"] seems to be only visible inside the IF block since the last value is okay if chekcked inside the block.
I somehow need to declare the whole structure of $typedict as global. Not just the base array(the associative one) but alos all the arrays inside it. But i only get to know the keys later.
Edit2:
Definetly a visibilty problem:
changing:
global $doc, $xpath, $current;
to:
global $doc, $xpath, $current, $typedict;
solved it