How can I merge or search an object? - php

Question

Here's my issue:
I have an object filled with arrays that look like this.
[376339] => Array
(
[0] => 1f422730-f54b-4e4d-9289-10258ce74446
[1] => 60dc4646-06ce-44d0-abe9-ee371847f4df
)
I need to search another object to find objects with the matching IDs, like below. Is there a way of doing this without a foreach? There are SEVERAL and I would like to not have to loop over the entire object every time.
stdClass Object
(
[id] => 1f422730-f54b-4e4d-9289-10258ce74446
[percentage] => 32
[destinations] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 59826
[destination_id] => 59826
[type] => Destination
[dequeue] =>
[value] => xxxxxxxxxxx
)
)
)
stdClass Object
(
[id] => 60dc4646-06ce-44d0-abe9-ee371847f4df
[percentage] => 68
[destinations] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 60046
[destination_id] => 60046
[type] => Destination
[dequeue] =>
[value] => xxxxxxxxxxxx
)
)
)
I need it to end up looking like this.
[376339] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 1f422730-f54b-4e4d-9289-10258ce74446
[percentage] => 32
[destinations] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 59826
[destination_id] => 59826
[type] => Destination
[dequeue] =>
[value] => xxxxxxxxxxx
)
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[id] => 60dc4646-06ce-44d0-abe9-ee371847f4df
[percentage] => 68
[destinations] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => 60046
[destination_id] => 60046
[type] => Destination
[dequeue] =>
[value] => xxxxxxxxxxxx
)
)
)
)
I'm not sure if this makes any sense, that's why I had my two inital outputs I need to have merged into one somehow. This is all coming from one huge json object and I'm just using json_decode($jsonStuff) to decode it.
Would this be easier if I added true in the decode function? If I could just search for it like I could in python, that would be neat. But as it is, I'm at a loss as to how to get the output I need.
Note: Input json CANNOT be changed, I have no affiliation with the people that created it.

Answer 1

First loop over your input array and create an array with the key as the id
$input = json_decode($json_input);
$output = array();
foreach($input as $obj){
$output[$obj->id] = $obj;
}
then you can build your other array by searching the id on the array key
$massive_search_array = array(376339 => array
(
0 => 1f422730-f54b-4e4d-9289-10258ce74446,
1 => 60dc4646-06ce-44d0-abe9-ee371847f4df
)
);
$final_output = array();
foreach($massive_search_array as $index => $searches){
foreach($searches as $search){
if(isset($output[$search])){
$final_output[$index][] = $output[$search];
}
}
}