add an array to a multi-dimensional array using PHP - php

Question

I have been searching for a simple answer, but it just doesn't exist, or I don't know how to ask the right questions, to gain the right answers.
Here is the simple to understand question:
I have a big multi-dimensional array, as illustrated here::
$dataFile = array (
array(
array(
data => 'infohere_01',
)
),
array(
data => 'infohere_02',
)
),
etc etc say up to infohere_125 and beyond...
I want to BREAK up the individual arrays creating a simple to manage .php files - using stupid logic ie KISS I thought this would do it. By using include, then stepping through all the seperate .php snippets to make a BIGGER array...
<?php
$dataFile = array (
include '/datafile_01.php';
include '/datafile_02.php';
);
?>
etc etc to include up to and above '/datafile_125.php';
with each include '/datafile_01.php';
being just::
<?php
array(
array(
data => 'infohere_01',
)
),
?>
Not the most elegant way to do it - as it doesn't work...
I cannot find a simple solution. I find complex solutions that do not apply to a simple need.

Answer 1

OK, sorted it now using KISS
Keeping it stupid simple!
Breaking it down into the basics, you find a solution - the complexity of 3d arrays, causing complexity itself, but with additional errors between 2d/3d coding using ), and/or ); there was a compounding of errors going on.
The 2 comments made, both gave a indication towards solving the problem, using RETURN and a loop to include the includes, but the real gem came from further research.
I quote:
Thanks for your help everyone. I found the answer, and I feel pretty
silly: Adding to 3D arrays is as easy as adding to regular arrays!
$users[] = $newuser;
That's bloody it! Amazing, huh? If $users is a 3D array, and $newuser
is an array, it just adds it to the 3D array like I need it to. When
all else fails, try the simplest thing you can think of! Oh well, the
5-6 hours I spent researching this
answered some questions I'll need to take care of later, and I
learned a ton while at it.
Source: [http://www.v7n.com/forums/coding-forum/49651-php-appending-multidimensional-arrays.html][1]
OK so what have I created::
Simple 2D arrays for each file
that is then created by adding to a 3d array as follows!
$shop = array();
$shop[] = include 'Catalogue_ARRAYS/Fire-and-Rescue-Tools_2009.php';
$shop[] = include 'Catalogue_ARRAYS/Insulated-Digging-Tools_2013.php';
Simple really - typical KISS
The 2d arrays / Include.php files are constructed as follows, using RETURN array( rather than $foo = array(::
NOTE:: the use of ); rather than ), which was the MISTAKE!
<?php
return array(
array(
data => 'infohere_01',
)
**);**
?>
That's it SOLVED!
Thanks to all of you who have contributed. We where nearly alright, but sods-law a mini mistake here and there with ' and ; kills things dead.
Thanks again

Answer 2

If you can have some variable declaration inside each of your include '/datafile_01.php':
<?php
$foo = array(
array(
data => 'infohere_01',
)
),
?>
Then you would be able to merge all your include files with something like this, and thus building your big array:
<?php
$dataFile = array();
foreach($includeFiles as $file)
{
include($file);
$dataFile[] = $foo;
}
?>

Answer 3

Included data file should contain:
<?php
return array(
array(
data => 'infohere_01',
)
);