Put nested array into one array - php

Question

Suppose i have a array like this :
Array(
'1' => Array(
"ID" => 1,
"Name" => "name 1"
),
'2' => Array (
Array(
"ID" => 2,
"Name" => "name 2"
)
),
'3' => Array(
Array(
Array(
Array(
"ID" => 3,
"Name" => "name3"
)
)
),
'4' => Array (
Array {
"ID" => 4,
"Name" => "name 4"
),
Array(
"ID" => 5,
"Name" => "name 5"
),
Array(
"ID" => 6,
"Name" => "name 6"
)
);
number of sub-arrays is not ordered it may be 3, 4 or 5 etc...
and i wanted to get :
Array(
Array( "ID" => 1, "Name" => "name 1"),
Array( "ID" => 2, "Name" => "name 2"),
Array( "ID" => 3, "Name" => "name 3"),
Array( "ID" => 4, "Name" => "name 4"),
Array( "ID" => 5, "Name" => "name 5"),
Array( "ID" => 6, "Name" => "name 6"));
Is there an easy way to do this ?
EDIT :
Edited the above array to add :
'4' => Array (
Array {
"ID" => 4,
"Name" => "name 4"
),
Array(
"ID" => 5,
"Name" => "name 5"
),
Array(
"ID" => 6,
"Name" => "name 6"
)
);
which aren't nested but i still want them to be in my final array.
Thanks.

Answer 1

//Assuming your data is in $in
$out=array();
foreach($in as $k=>$v) {
while ((is_array($v)) && (isset($v[0]))) $v=$v[0];
//See below for next line
$out[]=$v;
}
print_r($out);
With the marked line being either $out[$k]=$v; or $out[]=$v; depending on wether you want to keep the 1st-level keys. In your desired output you do not ,so use the shown version
Edit
With you changed input array, you need to do something like
function addtoarray($inarray, &$outarray) {
foreach ($inarray as $i) {
if (!is_array($i)) continue;
if (isset($i['ID'])) $outarray[]=$i;
else addtoarray($i,$outarray);
}
}
$out=array();
addtoarray($in,$out);
print_r($out);
This was tested against your new input data

Answer 2

You could recurse through the array and check for the ID field.
function combine_array(array $src, array &$dest)
{
if( isset( $src['ID'] ) ) {
$dest[] = $src;
return;
}
foreach( $sub in $src ) {
combine_array( $sub, $dest );
}
}
Just wrote this off the top of my head, no testing, so it might have a few problems. But that's the basic idea.

Answer 3

This may work for you, assuming $array is the variable and php 5.3
//process
$array = array_map(function($block) {
$return = '';
foreach ($block as $sub) {
if (true === isset($sub['ID']) {
$return = $block;
break;
}
}
return $block;
}, $array);
array_filter($array); //remove empty elements

Answer 4

Wrote up a quick recursive function. You'll need to write any appropriate error handling and check the logic, since a discrepancy in your data could easily turn this into an infinite loop:
$output = array();
foreach ( $data as $d ) {
$output[] = loop_data( $d );
}
function loop_data( $data ) {
// Check if this is the right array
if( ! array_key_exists( "ID", $data ) ) {
// Go deeper
$data = loop_data( $data[0] );
}
return $data;
}