I have the following array from an API
$arrs = array(
"id" => $ids,
"names" => $names,
"description" => $desc,
"picture_url" => $p_img;
);
The API require this information to work unfortunately I can only have one array per request, so I send this question to the developers:
How can I list multiple item such as:
$arrs= array(
"items1" => array (
"id" => $ids,
"names" => $names,
"description" => $desc,
"picture_url" => $p_img;
)
"items2" => array (
"id" => $ids,
"names" => $names,
"description" => $desc,
"picture_url" => $p_img;
)
"items3" => array (
"id" => $ids,
"names" => $names,
"description" => $desc,
"picture_url" => $p_img;
)
));
And they told me that at the moment is not possible, so, the "important" part of this array is the "names", when it is use with a single item there is no problem I get a single name, done, no problem, but what if I have multiple names? I can send multiple request but that will be seen as a flood or something like... just imaging 300 names = 300 request in one second or so... sure I can put a pause per request but is not efficient...
the API will read something like this...
"id" => 654,
"names" => "John", // <-- Lets look at this...
"description" => "Fancy desc...",
"picture_url" => "http"//domain.com/assets/user/654/av_654_dd.jpg";
So before I output the array I have an SQL Query with a while to display the information...
while ($names = $listnames->fetch_assoc()) {echo $names['names']. ', ';}
This will display... John, Karl, Lisa, Mark... so this same structure I'd love to put it into my array... the thing is I can't put a while after the => ... that would be silly and it wont work...
"id" => 654,
"names" => "John, Karl, Lisa, Mark", // <-- Lets look at this...
"description" => "Fancy desc...",
"picture_url" => "http"//domain.com/assets/user/654/av_654_dd.jpg";
if I need only one name then there is not problem... but in this case I need to put all of the name as a value, so, how can get the result from a WHILE loop.... so that I can use that result elsewhere...
Thank you for taking the time..
while ($names = $listnames->fetch_assoc()) {
$name_array[] = $names['names'];
}
$arrs=array(
"items1" => array (
"id" => $ids,
"names" => implode(', ', $name_array),
"description" => $desc,
"picture_url" => $p_img;
)
);
We don't know how you access to the API.
If this is a REST API, you are able to do only what the developers planned.
If this is a framework or another library, you may edit it.
And you should receive your results like theses:
$arrs = array(
array(
"id" => 1,
"names" => 'MyName',
"description" => 'MyDesc',
"picture_url" => 'MyPic',
),
array(
"id" => 2,
"names" => 'MyName',
"description" => 'MyDesc',
"picture_url" => 'MyPic',
),
);
So if you have full access to the SQL results, to get all results' data, you could do:
$results = array();
while( $row = $listnames->fetch_assoc() ) {
$results[] = $row;
}
If you want to set several possible name in input, the developers should develop that is possible with array of values.
For names, they just have to code: "LIKE '".implode("', LIKE '", $names)."'"
They could also add '%' to allow more values, e.g. 'John' for 'Johnny'.
I think we need more informations to really help you.
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I am creating a response from my own webhook.
Now i wanted to send the suggestions array, but am struggling with creating an array in an array. How does these need to be set up?
$jsonResponse = json_encode(array(
"session" => array(
"params" => array(
"antA" => "Hello Answer A",
"antB" => "Hello Answer B",
"extrainfo" => "This is some extra information"
)
),
"prompt" => array(
"override" => false,
"firstSimple" => array(
"speech" => "<speak>".$speech."</speak>"
),
"suggestions" => array(
"title" => "aa",
"title" => "bb",
"title" => "cc"
),
)
));
The issue is that prompt.suggestions is specified to take an indexed array of Suggesion objects, that is, an array that maps from numbers to the objects (or just a list, where the numbering is assumed). But you are providing an associative array - that is, mapping a property name to something. Furthermore, your associative array is naming everything the same. Php uses similar syntax for indexed arrays and associative arrays, so it can sometimes be unclear what you actually need.
In this case, that part of your code should probably look something more like this:
"suggestions" => array(
array("title" => "aa"),
array("title" => "bb"),
array("title" => "cc")
)
I am currently building a web planning and I want to show some data in the period display.
I have a PHP file where I create my SQL request over ~13 tables and fetch all results (I use PDO::FETCH_ASSOC), then I have to loop over my result to build the array I want.
The problem is I need to build a complicated array with lot of data. Here is the kind of result I want to achieve :
$result = array(
$place_1 => array(
'data_place' => array(
'id' => ...,
'name' => ...,
// etc.
),
'data_target' => array(
$target_type_1 => array(
$name_1 => ...,
$name_2 => ...,
// etc.
),
$target_type_2 => array ( ... ),
// etc.
),
'data_isOpen' => array(
$day_1 => array(
$hour_begin => ...,
$hour_end => ...
),
$day_2 => array ( ... ),
// etc.
),
'data_box' => array(
// same kind of stuff with more dimension
)
),
...
$place_n = array(
// same
)
);
When I execute my request, I get something like 3000 array with all the data I need, but I only have 29 places in database so there is a lot of repetition...
$result = array(
0 => array(
"id" => ...,
"name" => ...,
// the list of all fields I need in my big array
),
...
n => array(
// same
)
);
I almost manage to achieve the result I want with some "foreach" and headaches but here is my question :
Is it possible to build a SQL request and fetch the result as I want? I mean, can I group all the result by "id_place" for example but wihtout lost information? And if it's possible, can we do it multiple time?
The idea is to get a result with one array for every place (so 29 and not 3000), then for every "place array", group for example the "hour_begin" and "hour_end" by "opening_day", etc...
Sorry if it's a duplicate, I didn't saw any positive anwser to my question so I try again !
Title sounds a bit convoluted but the title itself is pretty self-descriptive I think.
Assume that I have an associative array like this:
$data['blog_info'] = array(
"title" => "Adventure",
"author" => "Yo"
);
Now, I would like add to the current key 'blog_info" another set of key => value array. so the result should be :
$data['blog_info'] = array(
"title" => "Adventure",
"author" => "Yo",
"ISBN" => "23423498"
);
so for example I would like to add "ISBN" => "23423498" inside this 'blog_info' key. How am I able to achieve this? (but by going like $data['blog_info'].push("ISBN" => "23423498") etc?)
The below will achieve it ($data['blog_info'] is just an array).
$data['blog_info']['ISBN'] = '23423498';
In PHP you don't need the curly braces { and } in this context.
$data['blog_info'] = array(
"title" => "Adventure",
"author" => "Yo"
);
Try something like
$data['blog_info']['ISBN'] = '23423498';
I have been trying to figure this out but keep getting confused with code examples.
How can I add a single element to the array below.
$datafields = array(
"helpdesk_ticket" => array(
"subject" => $subject,
"description" => $notes,
"email" => "joe#email.net",
"priority" => $priority2,
"ticket_type" => $type,
"viewed" => $viewed
)
);
So for instance I want to add:
"status" => $status
This is just a simple array assignment.
$datafields['helpdesk_ticket']['status'] = $status;
For more info read the manual about arrays
I have a variable number of multidimensional arrays but all with the same 4 possible values for each item.
For example:
Array
(
[companyid] => 1
[employeeid] => 1
[role] => "Something"
[name] => "Something"
)
but every array may have a different ammount of items inside it.
I want to turn all the arrays into one single table with lots of rows. I tried array_merge() but I end up with a table with 8, 12, 16... columns instead of more rows.
So... any ideas?
Thanks
Didn't test it, but you could try the following:
$table = array();
$columns = array('companyid' => '', 'employeeid' => '', 'role' => '', 'name' => '');
foreach($array as $item) {
$table[] = array_merge($columns, $item);
}
This should work since the documentation about array_merge say:
If the input arrays have the same string keys, then the later value
for that key will overwrite the previous one.
So you either get the value of the current item or a default value that you can specify in the $columns array.
$array1=Array
(
"companyid" => 1,
"employeeid" => 4,
"role" => "Something",
"name" => "Something",
);
$array2=Array
(
"companyid" => array(2,2,2),
"employeeid" => 5,
"role" => "Something2",
"name" => "Something2"
);
$array3=Array
(
"companyid" => 3,
"employeeid" => 6,
"role" => "Something3",
"name" => "Something3"
);
//Using array_merge
$main_array["companyid"]=array_merge((array)$array1["companyid"],(array)$array2["companyid"],(array)$array3["companyid"]);
$main_array["employeeid"]=array_merge((array)$array1["employeeid"],(array)$array2["employeeid"],(array)$array3["employeeid"]);
for($i=0;$i<count($main_array["companyid"]);$i++)
echo $main_array["companyid"][$i] + "<br />";
for($i=0;$i<count($main_array["employeeid"]);$i++)
echo $main_array["employeeid"][$i] + "<br />";
I've tested the code above and seems right.
You coult also improve this code into a DRY function.