I'm trying to create a script that, based on an input a?? creates an array of all the combinations and permutations of all words containing an a and two other characters from the alphabet.
Values are such as a, ab, ba, dab, bga etc - as you may see the array contains (or should contain) a weird amount of values.
The problem is that the functions I use in the script outputs even more values with many duplicates.
And for some reason I can not create a flattened array without duplicates. I tried to use array_unique() but it doesn't work here. I tried to use explode() and implode() to flatten the result array, but no success. Even if I succeed to create a string from the values, when I try to transform this string into an array, the result is again the actual multi-dimensional array.
This drives me crazy, and as you see the code, I'm a beginner in PHP.
Any help to transform the actual multidimensional array to a flattened one without duplicates is highly appreciated. An example: actually the array contains 12168 sub-arrays, and only the string a occurs 1456 times. What I need is an array that doesn't have sub-arrays and contains each results only one time.
The PHP code is available at here
and the output is here:
Have you tried something like:
$inputString = 'a??';
$array = array();
if (strpos($inputString, 'a') !== false && !in_array($inputString, $array)) {
$array[] = $inputString;
}
echo '<pre>'; print_r($array); echo '</pre>';
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I need to find the most common (most occurring) array in a multidimensional array. Not the most common values like this post - Find Common most values in multidimensional array in PHP - but rather the most common combination.
For example, if I have the following:
$a1=array(
array('704322062'),
array('678073776', '704322062'),
array('678073776', '704322062'),
array('704322064'),
array('704322062'),
array('678073776'),
array('678073776', '704322062')
);
I want to be able to detect that the array that occurs most often is array('678073776', '704322062') not that the string '704322062' is most common.
I've tried using array_intersect but couldn't get it working for this scenario.
Thanks!
array_count_values only works with scalar values, not when the items are arrays themselves. But we can still use that function, if we transform your arrays into strings first - by encoding them as JSON.
// fill temp array with items encoded as JSON
$temp = [];
foreach($a1 as $item) {
$temp[] = json_encode($item);
}
// count how many times each of those values occurs
$value_counts = array_count_values($temp);
// sort by number of occurrence, while preserving the keys
ksort($value_counts);
// pick the first key from the temp array
$first = array_key_first($value_counts);
This will get you ["678073776","704322062"] in $first now - you can json_decode it again, if you want your “original” array.
Note that this does not take into account, that two arrays could occur the same amount of times - then it will just pick the “random” first one of those. If you need to handle that case as well somehow, then you can determine the maximum value in $temp first, and then filter it by that value, so that only those keys of the corresponding arrays will be left.
I have an app which i'm making a HTTP request via PHP to retrieve some XML data. I'm then taking a string in that data, splitting it by spaces (" ") and pushing it into a new array. I'm then taking an existing array and de-duping it against this new array using the function array_diff. Here is my code below:
// THIS ARRAY IS MUCH LONGER BUT HAVE JUST PUT IN A FEW WORDS
$stopwords = array("a", "about", "above", "above", "across", "after", "afterwards", "again");
// this is my XML call
$test = simplexml_load_file('https://some-xml-endpoint.com/endpoint');
// defining a blank array where I want the result to go
$mappedWordsObj = [];
for($i = 0;$i < count($test->data);$i++) {
// if I echo this it returns me a string with no quotes (sometimes the quotes would be in there and I thought this may have been the issue)
$comment = chop(strtolower($test->data[$i]->comments));
// here I split the comment into an array by spaces
$wordsArray = explode(' ', $comment);
//here I compare my new array of words with the stopwords I want removed from the wordsArray
$arr_1 = array_diff($wordsArray, $stopwords);
// here I push into the $mappedWordsObj array
array_push($mappedWordsObj, $arr_1);
}
// here I push to the DOM the result to see how my array looks
echo json_encode($mappedWordsObj);
My issue is that in the resulting $mappedWordsObj array, I expect all the array items to be arrays themselves that contain the words but some of the items are getting inserted in the $mappedWordsObj as arrays with the words and others as objects with properties whos values are the words. Here is a snippet of the data returned:
{"0":"i","1":"just","2":"want","4":"switch","6":"existing","7":"t-mobile","8":"pay","13":"ee","14":"pay","15":"monthly.","16":"i","17":"don't","18":"want","20":"new","21":"phone!","23":"page","24":"does","26":"tell","31":"this!"},{"0":"just","2":"option","4":"'sim","5":"only'","9":"'radio","10":"button'","11":"forced","12":"selection."},
["voice","recignition"],
["testing","ol"],
{"0":"can't","1":"think","4":"i","7":"simple","9":"easy"},{"2":"instead","3":"lol"},
["n\/a"],
["great","website"],
I'd like to just have an array of arrays so can anyone please tell me where i've gone wrong?
Cheers
When you use json_encode, it will convert PHP arrays to either JSON arrays or JSON objects. Which one is output depends completely on the array keys in the PHP array. For PHP arrays with sequential, numeric indexes starting at 0, the JSON output will be an array. For PHP arrays with any other indexes, the JSON output will be an object.
The array_diff produces an array where the indexes are not sequential in some cases. You can use array_values to reindex the result before appending it to your output array.
array_push($mappedWordsObj, array_values($arr_1));
Side note - array_push actually isn't necessary here. You can use
$mappedWordsObj[] = array_values($arr_1);
The array_push documentation actually recommends doing it this way when you're only appending one item to the array. But, it's a pretty small optimization, so if array_push looks better to you, never mind. :)
So I have two arrays:
$one = array('red','green','blue','yellow','white');
$two = array('white','blue','red');
This being said, I need to now remove the elements from the first array that are existent in the second one. In short, the output after the sorting has to be (in this case): green, yellow.
I've looked at the array functions at PHP's documentation but was unable to find what I need. I'm sure it's something basic but I can't recall a function for that.
Try array_diff()
Compares array1 against one or more other arrays and returns the values in array1 that are not present in any of the other arrays.
For example...
$three = array_diff($one, $two);
Demo ~ https://eval.in/167872
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I have two arrays, for example:
array1={1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9};
array2={4,6,9}
Is there any function so that I can determine that array2 fully exists in array1?
I know i can use the in_array() function in a loop but in cases where I will have large arrays with hundreds of elements so I am searching for a function.
Try:
$fullyExists = (count($array2) == count(array_intersect($array2, $array1));
The array_intersect.php function will return only elements of the second array that are present in all the other arguments (only the first array in this case). So, if the length of the intersection is equal to the lenght of the second array, the second array is fully contained by the first one.
You can use array_intersect for this, but you have to be a bit careful.
If the array to match has no duplicates, you can use
// The order of the arrays matters!
$isSubset = count(array_intersect($array2, $array1)) == count($array2);
However this will not work if e.g. $array2 = array(4, 4). If duplicates are an issue, you need to also use array_unique:
$unique = array_unique($array2);
// The order of the arrays matters!
$isSubset = count(array_intersect($unique, $array1)) == count($unique);
The reason that the order of the arrays matters is that the array given as the first parameter to array_intersect must have no duplicates. If the parameters are switched around this requirement will move from $array2 to $array1, which is important as it can change the behavior of the function.
Quick and easy solution:
array_diff(array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9),array(4,6,9));
if the return is a empty array, it is in the array otherwise he'll output the items that aren't
I didn't try with complex array but comparing work for me
var_dump(array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) === array(4,6,9));
var_dump(array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) === array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9));
I wanted to pull an arbitrary number of random elements from an array in php. I see that the array_rand() function pulls an arbitrary number of random keys from an array. All the examples I found online showed then using a key reference to get the actual values from the array, e.g.
$random_elements = array();
$random_keys = array_rand($source_array);
foreach ( $random_keys as $random_key ) {
$random_elements[] = $source_array[$random_key];
}
That seemed cumbersome to me; I was thinking I could do it more concisely. I would need either a function that plain-out returned random elements, instead of keys, or one that could convert keys to elements, so I could do something like this:
$random_elements = keys_to_elements(array_rand($source_array, $number, $source_array));
But I didn't find any such function(s) in the manual nor in googling. Am I overlooking the obvious?
What about usung array_flip? Just came to my mind:
$random_elements = array_rand(array_flip($source_array), 3);
First we flip the array making its values become keys, and then use array_rand.
An alternate solution would be to shuffle the array and return a slice from the start of it.
Or, if you don't want to alter the array, you could do:
array_intersect_key($source_array, array_combine(
array_rand($source_array, $number), range(1, $number)));
This is a bit hacky because array_intersect can work on keys or values, but not selecting keys from one array that match values in another. So, I need to use array_combine to turn those values into keys of another array.
You could do something like this, not tested!!!
array_walk(array_rand($array, 2), create_function('&$value,$key',
'$value = '.$array[$value].';'));