I've been trying for a while. I have tried several things to fix this, but I just can't get it to work.
My code:
<?php
if (is_array($row))
{
foreach ($row as $data) {
echo array_unique($data->username);
}
}
?>
It gives me the following error
Message: array_unique() expects parameter 1 to be array, string given
I have no idea what is going on with this. I have even tried placing the array_unique in the $row.
So like:
<?php
if (is_array($row))
{
foreach (array_unique($row) as $data) {
echo $data->username;
}
}
?>
But this gives me another error:
Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string
I have no idea what's going on. I have searched for hours but haven't found anything on here. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
You can't use array_unique on multi-dimensional arrays when you're looking inside the depth. Its works on flat one, and certainly won't work on strings. An alternative is to create another container for that and use usernames as keys, then you'll get unique ones.
Since you haven't shown the array/object structure, here a little bit on an idea on the comment I gave above:
$container = array();
foreach($row as $data) {
if(!isset($container[$data->username])) {
$container[$data->username] = $data;
}
}
// $container = array_values($container); // optional simple reindex
Related
Any idea on how to restructure the json below:
$jsonArray = [{"Level":"77.2023%","Product":"Milk","Temperature":"4"},
{"Level":"399.2023%","Product":"Coffee","Temperature":"34"},
{"Level":"109.2023%","Product":"Chocolate","Temperature":"14"}]
Expected outcome:
$expected = {"Milk":{"Level":"77.2023%","Temperature":"4"},
"Coffee":{"Level":"399.2023%","Temperature":"34"},
"Chocolate":{"Level":"109.2023%","Temperature":"14"}
}
I'm new and my thinking is get the product value in array and again use foreach loop to find the others value? .
Here's one possibility:
$jsonArray = '[{"Level":"77.2023%","Product":"Milk","Temperature":"4"},
{"Level":"399.2023%","Product":"Coffee","Temperature":"34"},
{"Level":"109.2023%","Product":"Chocolate","Temperature":"14"}]';
$output = array();
foreach (json_decode($jsonArray, true) as $row) {
$product = $row['Product'];
$output[$product] = $row;
unset($output[$product]['Product']);
}
echo json_encode($output);
Output:
{"Milk":{"Level":"77.2023%","Temperature":"4"},
"Coffee":{"Level":"399.2023%","Temperature":"34"},
"Chocolate":{"Level":"109.2023%","Temperature":"14"}
}
Demo on 3v4l.org
This made some trick
$a = '[{"Level":"77.2023%","Product":"Milk","Temperature":"4"},
{"Level":"399.2023%","Product":"Coffee","Temperature":"34"},
{"Level":"109.2023%","Product":"Chocolate","Temperature":"14"}]';
$newAr = array();
foreach(json_decode($a,true) as $key=>$value)
{
$newAr[$value['Product']] = array(
'Level' => $value['Level'],
'Temperature' => $value['Temperature'],
);
}
There are many ways to perform this with Loops in PHP. Other answers demonstrate it accurately. I would also suggest to integrate some form of Error handling, data validation/filtering/restriction in your code to avoid unexpected results down the road.
For instance, json_decode(), either assigned to a variable pre-foreach or straight in the foreach() 1st argument will just raise a warning if the original json is not valid-json, and just skip over the foreach used to construct your final goal. Then if you pass the result (that may have failed) directly to your next logic construct, it could create some iffy-behavior.
Also, on the concept of data-validation & filtering, you could restrict the foreach(), or any other looping mechanism, to check against a Product_List_Array[Milk,Coffee,Chocolate], using if(in_array() ...) so the final/goal object only contains the expected Products, this, in the case the original json has other artifacts. Filtering the values can also increase stability in restricting, for example, Temperature to Float.
<?php
$interests[50] = array('fav_beverages' => "beer");
?>
now i need the index (i.e. 50 or whatever the index may be) from the value beer.
I tried array_search(), array_flip(), in_array(), extract(), list() to get the answer.
please do let me know if I have missed out any tricks for the above functions or any other function I`ve not listed. Answers will be greatly appreciated.
thanks for the replies. But for my disappointment it is still not working. btw I have a large pool of data like "beer");
$interests[50] = array('fav_cuisine' => "arabic");
$interests[50] = array('fav_food' => "hummus"); ?> . my approach was to get the other data like "arablic" and "hummus" from the user input "beer". So my only connection is via the index[50].Do let me know if my approach is wrong and I can access the data through other means.My senior just informed me that I`m not supposed to use loop.
This should work in your case.
$interests[50] = array('fav_beverages' => "beer");
function multi_array_search($needle, $interests){
foreach($interests as $interest){
if (array_search($needle, $interest)){
return array_search($interest, $interests);
break;
}
}
}
echo multi_array_search("beer", $interests);
If your array contains multiple sub-arrays and you don't know which one contains the value beer, then you can simply loop through the arrays, and then through the sub-arrays, to search for the value, and then return the index if it is found:
$needle = 'beer';
foreach ($interests as $index => $arr) {
foreach ($arr as $value) {
if ($value == $needle) {
echo $index;
break;
}
}
}
Demo
So I used JSON to obtain a multidimensional array. What I'm trying to do is for each listing in the main part of the array (not sure what the technical term is) access the part of the array that is below. I would then like to echo each one of these links.
As you can probably see I'm trying to scrape the images. How do I go about doing this? I love to learn so some hints at first would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys!
[url] => http://imgur.com/0q4G4qP
Json code
<?php
$jsonurl = "http://www.reddit.com/r/pics.json";
$data = file_get_contents($jsonurl);
$array = json_decode($data, true);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($array);
echo "</pre>";
I am not entirely sure how to do this. I referenced the php manual on how to access these types of arrays, but I'm a bit lost. Basically for everyone of those children.
You can do this:
foreach ($multi_d_array['data']['children'] as $item) {
echo $item['data']['url'].'<br/>';
}
Use foreach in loops foreach($data as $d) { echo $d['url'] ;}
I've got a rather large multidimensional stdClass Object being outputted from a json feed with PHP.
It goes about 8 or 9 steps deep and the data that I need is around 7 steps in.
I'm wondering if I can easily grab one of the entires instead of doing this:
echo $data->one->two->anotherone->gettinglong->omg->hereweare;
I'm saying this because the data structure may change over time.
Is this possible?
You could try to parse the object into an array and search the array for the wanted values, it just keeps looping through each level of the object.
function parseObjectArrayToArray($objectPassed, &$in_arr = array()) {
foreach($objectPassed as $element) {
if(is_object($element) || is_array($element)) {
parseObjectArrayToArray($element,$in_arr);
} else {
// XML is being passed, need to strip it
$element = strip_tags($element);
// Trim whitespace
$element = trim($element);
// Push to array
if($element != '' && !in_array($element,$in_arr)) {
$in_arr[] = $element;
}
}
}
return $in_arr;
}
How to call
$parsed_obj_arr = parseObjectArrayToArray($objectPassed);
Not without searching through whats probably inefficient.
Json is a structured data object with the purpose of eliminating something like this.
If the datastructure can change, but doesn't very often, your best bet is to write a wrapper object so you will only have to change a path at a single point on change:
class MyDataWrapp {
public $json;
function __construct($jsonstring){
$this->json = json_decode($jsonstring);
}
function getHereWeAre(){
return $this->json->one->two->anotherone->gettinglong->omg->hereweare;
}
}
If the datastructure changes dramatically and constantly, I'd json_decode as an array of arrays, and probably use RecursiveFilterIterator.
How can you do this? My code seen here doesn't work
for($i=0;i<count($cond);$i++){
$cond[$i] = $cond[$i][0];
}
It can be as simple as this:
$array = array_map('reset', $array);
There could be problems if the source array isn't numerically index. Try this instead:
$destinationArray = array();
for ($sourceArray as $key=>$value) {
$destinationArray[] = $value[0]; //you may want to use a different index than '0'
}
// Make sure you have your first array initialised here!
$array2 = array();
foreach ($array AS $item)
{
$array2[] = $item[0];
}
Assuming you want to have the same variable name afterwards, you can re-assign the new array back to the old one.
$array = $array2;
unset($array2); // Not needed, but helps with keeping memory down
Also, you might be able to, dependant on what is in the array, do something like.
$array = array_merge(array_values($array));
As previously stated, your code will not work properly in various situation.
Try to initialize your array with this values:
$cond = array(5=>array('4','3'),9=>array('3','4'));
A solution, to me better readable also is the following code:
//explain what to do to every single line of the 2d array
function reduceRowToFirstItem($x) { return $x[0]; }
// apply the trasnformation to the array
$a=array_map('reduceRowTofirstItem',$cond);
You can read the reference for array map for a thorough explanation.
You can opt also for a slight variation using array_walk (it operate on the array "in place"). Note that the function doesn't return a value and that his parameter is passed by reference.
function reduceToFirstItem(&$x) { $x=$x[0]; }
array_walk($cond, 'reduceToFirstItem');
That should work. Why does it not work? what error message do you get?
This is the code I would use:
$inArr;//This is the 2D array
$outArr = array();
for($i=0;$i<count($inArr);$i++){
$outArr[$i] = $inArr[$i][0];
}