Building an array of search parameters - php

Question

I need some help wrapping my head around a problem. I have an array filled with other arrays. I need to:
Loop through the entire array and build a new array called finalOptions
Each iteration of the loop will take a new SearchIndex and apply the other paramenters
i.e
SearchIndex => SportingGoods
MinPercentageOff => 50
MinimumPrice => 1
ItemPage => 1
Sort => salesrank
BrowseNode => 2342470011
THEN:
Final array should contain data like this
SearchIndex => SportingGoods
MinPercentageOff => 60
MinimumPrice => 100
ItemPage => 2
Sort => salesrank
BrowseNode => 3403201
Basically, I'm creating a new array and sending it to another method that will execute a call to an API and return a result, then doing it again until my array options are complete.
This might not be the way to go and I'm looking for suggestions/pseudo code on an approach. Here is the basics of what I have so far:
Starting with this code
$allOptions = array(
"SearchIndex" => array("SportingGoods", "Tools"),
"MinPercentageOff" => array("50", "60", "70"),
"MinimumPrice" => array("1", "100", "1000"),
"ItemPage" => array("1", "2"),
"Sort" => array("salesrank")
"BrowseNode" => array(
"SportingGoods" => array("2342470011", "3403201"),
"Tools" => array("511364")
)
)
$finalOptions = array();
foreach($allOptions as $options){
foreach($options["SearchIndex"] as $searchIndex){
$finalOptions[] = "SearchIndex" => $searchIndex[]
}
$this->itemSearch($finalOptions);
}
EDIT
The arrays will contain more values. i.e "ItemPage" => array("1", "2"), will have 1 - 10. The others will have more values as well.

Answer 1

From the given array it will produce 54 possible combinations as you described.
Also you need to make sure you have array in $allOptions['BrowseNode'] indexed as each value of $allOptions['SearchIndex']. Otherwise it will produce error.
Cartesian function from here.
$allOptions = [
"SearchIndex" => ["SportingGoods", "Tools"],
"MinPercentageOff" => ["50", "60", "70"],
"MinimumPrice" => ["1", "100", "1000"],
"ItemPage" => ["1", "2"],
"Sort" => ["salesrank"],
"BrowseNode" => ["SportingGoods" => ["2342470011", "3403201"], "Tools" => ["511364"] ] ];
$finalOptions = $allOptions; // copy our initial $allOptions array
unset($finalOptions['BrowseNode']); // deal with BrowseNode key later with custom iterator
$cartesian_product = cartesian($finalOptions); // find cartesian except BrowseNode
foreach($cartesian_product as $cartesian) // each member of cartesian product will iterate here
{
foreach($allOptions['BrowseNode'][$cartesian['SearchIndex']] as $possible)
/*
We have unset the BrowseNode, so need to refer original $allOptions array for BrowseNode,
In every cartesian product, we will get $cartesian['SearchIndex'] and it will contain either
'SportingGoods' or 'Tools' , so in our original array, look for 'BrowseNode' value, having key
same as $cartesian['SearchIndex'].
$allOptions['BrowseNode'][$cartesian['SearchIndex']] <---- is similar to below two lines
$key = $cartesian['SearchIndex'];
$allOptions['BrowseNode'][$key];
Finally iterate through $allOptions['BrowseNode'][$cartesian['SearchIndex']] will iterate as many times,
as many values there are
*/
{
$cartesian['BrowseNode'] = $possible; // assign the long waited key here to 'BrowseNode'
var_dump($cartesian); // here you can do $this->itemSearch($cartesian);
}
}
function cartesian($input) {
$input = array_filter($input);
/*
will renove any false values in input array,
in our array's case, it will do nothing.
*/
$result = [[]];
foreach ($input as $key => $values) {
$append = [];
foreach($result as $product) {
foreach($values as $item) {
$product [$key] = $item;
$append [] = $product;
}
}
$result = $append;
}
return $result;
}