With an array $s_filters that looks like this (many different keys possible):
Array
(
[genders] => m
[ages] => 11-12,13-15
)
How can I programatically convert this array to this:
$gender = array('m');
$ages = array('11-12','13-15');
So basically loop through $s_filters and create new arrays the names of which is the key and the values should explode on ",";
I tried using variable variables:
foreach( $s_filters as $key => $value )
{
$$key = array();
$$key[] = $value;
print_r($$key);
}
But this gives me cannot use [] for reading errors. Am I on the right track?
The following code takes a different approach on what you're trying to achieve. It first uses the extract function to convert the array to local variables, then loops though those new variables and explodes them:
extract($s_filters);
foreach(array_keys($s_filters) as $key)
{
${$key} = explode(",", ${$key});
}
$s_filters = Array
(
"genders" => "m",
"ages" => "11-12,13-15"
);
foreach($s_filters as $key=>$value)
{
${$key} = explode(',', $value);
}
header("Content-Type: text/plain");
print_r($genders);
print_r($ages);
$gender = $arr['gender'];
What you want there is unreadable, hard to debug, and overall a bad practice. It definitely can be handled better.
Related
I have this string:
array(array('1','name1','1','0'),array('2','name2','0','1'),array('3','name3','0','1'),array('4','name4','1','1'),array('5','name5','1','0'));
Stored in $_POST['data']
The string Im receiving is via.load` function where the structure of the string is constructed like so.
I would like to convert it to a multidimensional array via php so I can loop through it easily
So far I`ve reached a workaround by modifying both the string and the method.
Now my string looks like this :
1,name1,1,0,|2,name2,0,1,|3,name3,0,1,|4,name4,1,1,|5,name5,1,0,|
And the method is this
$data2 = $_POST['data2']; /// get data
$data2 = substr_replace($data2 ,"", -2); // eliminate ,|
$data2 = $data2."|"; // add |
$one=explode("|",$data2); // create multidimensional array
$array = array();
foreach ($one as $item){
$array[] = explode(",",$item);
}
I can keep this solution but I would like to know if there is another way of doing it as first requested
There is a better and simple way. You just need to use a foreach loop inside foreach loop.
$data = array(
array('1','name1','1','0'),
array('2','name2','0','1'),
array('3','name3','0','1'),
array('4','name4','1','1'),
array('5','name5','1','0')
);
foreach( $data as $d ) {
foreach( $d as $value ) {
echo $value;
echo '<br />';
}
}
You can check the online Demo
To parse your original string you can use eval()
$string = 'array(array('1','name1','1','0'),array('2','name2','0','1'),array('3','name3','0','1'),array('4','name4','1','1'),array('5','name5','1','0'));';
eval('$array = '.$string);
But eval can/should be disabled on the server, because it comes with security issues.
What i would do is to use JSON, where you would POST the json encoding it with:
json_ecnode( $my_array );
and then decoding it:
$array = json_decode( $_POST['data'], true );
If I want to add multiple values in array having same index in PHP, then can it be possible to create this type of an array? For e.g.,
fruits[a]="apple";
fruits[a]="banana";
fruits[a]="cherry";
fruits[b]="pineapple";
fruits[b]="grappes";
I want array to look like as below:-
fruits = {[a]=>"apple",[a]=>"banana",[a]=>"cherry",[b]=>"pineapple",[b]=>"grappes"};
You cannot define multiple value under same key or index.
In your case -
fruits[a]="apple";
fruits[a]="banana";
Here apple will be replaced by banana.
Instead, you may define array as -
fruits[a][] = "apple";
fruits[a][] = "banana";
Edit: i updated my answer with php code, but i don't code php usually, this might not be the most optimal solution, i tried this code in a php sandbox
$subarray1[0] = "apple";
$subarray1[1] = "banana";
$subarray1[2] = "cherry";
$subarray2[0] = "pineapple";
$subarray2[1] = "grappes";
$fruits[0] = $subarray1;
$fruits[1] = $subarray2;
foreach( $fruits as $key => $value ){
foreach( $value as $key2 => $value2 ){
echo $key2."\t=>\t".$value2."\n";
}
}
use implode and explode .
subarray1[0] = "apple"
subarray1[1] = "banana"
subarray1[2] = "cherry"
subarray2[0] = "pineapple"
subarray2[1] = "grappes"
It is store data with ,(comma)
$ar="";
for($i=0;$i<=count(subarray1);$i++)
{
$ar[]=subarray1[$i];
}
$rt=implode(',',$ar);
echo $rt;
It is Remove ,(comma) form array
$ex=explode(",",$ar);
print_r($ex);
Excuse me if this question was already solved. I've searched trough the site and couldn't find an answer.
I'm trying to build a bi-dimensional array from a string. The string has this structure:
$workers="name1:age1/name2:age2/name3:age3"
The idea is to explode the array into "persons" using "/" as separator, and then using ":" to explode each "person" into an array that would contain "name" and "age".
I know the basics about the explode function:
$array=explode("separator","$string");
But I have no idea how to face this to make it bidimensional. Any help would be appreciated.
Something like the following should work. The goal is to first split the data into smaller chunks, and then step through each chunk and further subdivide it as needed.
$row = 0;
foreach (explode("/", $workers) as $substring) {
$col = 0;
foreach (explode(":", $substring) as $value) {
$array[$row][$col] = $value;
$col++;
}
$row++;
}
$array = array();
$workers = explode('/', "name1:age1/name2:age2/name3:age3");
foreach ($workers as $worker) {
$worker = explode(':', $worker);
$array[$worker[0]] = $worker[1];
}
Try this code:
<?php
$new_arr=array();
$workers="name1:age1/name2:age2/name3:age3";
$arr=explode('/',$workers);
foreach($arr as $value){
$new_arr[]=explode(':',$value);
}
?>
The quick solution is
$results = [];
$data = explode("/", $workers);
foreach ($data as $row) {
$line = explode(":", $row);
$results[] = [$line[0], $line[1]];
}
You could also use array_walk with a custom function which does the second level split for you.
This is another approach, not multidimensional:
parse_str(str_replace(array(':','/'), array('=','&'), $workers), $array);
print_r($array);
Shorter in PHP >= 5.4.0:
parse_str(str_replace([':','/'], ['=','&'], $workers), $array);
print_r($array);
yet another approach, since you didn't really give an example of what you mean by "bidimensional" ...
$workers="name1:age1/name2:age2/name3:age3";
parse_str(rtrim(preg_replace('~name(\d+):([^/]+)/?~','name[$1]=$2&',$workers),'&'),$names);
output:
Array
(
[name] => Array
(
[1] => age1
[2] => age2
[3] => age3
)
)
WP outputs an array:
$therapie = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Therapieen', false);
print_r($therapie);
//the output of print_r
Array ( [0] => Massagetherapie )
Array ( [0] => Hot stone )
Array ( [0] => Massagetherapie )
How would I merge these arrays to one and delete all the exact double names?
Resulting in something like this:
theArray
(
[0] => Massagetherapie
[1] => Hot stone
)
[SOLVED] the problem was if you do this in a while loop it wont work here my solution, ty for all reply's and good code.: Its run the loop and pushes every outcome in a array.
<?php query_posts('post_type=therapeut');
$therapeAr = array(); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php $therapie = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Therapieen', true);
if (strpos($therapie,',') !== false) { //check for , if so make array
$arr = explode(',', $therapie);
array_push($therapeAr, $arr);
} else {
array_push($therapeAr, $therapie);
} ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php
function array_values_recursive($ary) { //2 to 1 dim array
$lst = array();
foreach( array_keys($ary) as $k ) {
$v = $ary[$k];
if (is_scalar($v)) {
$lst[] = $v;
} elseif (is_array($v)) {
$lst = array_merge($lst,array_values_recursive($v));
}}
return $lst;
}
function trim_value(&$value) //trims whitespace begin&end array
{
$value = trim($value);
}
$therapeAr = array_values_recursive($therapeAr);
array_walk($therapeAr, 'trim_value');
$therapeAr = array_unique($therapeAr);
foreach($therapeAr as $thera) {
echo '<li><input type="checkbox" value="'.$thera.'">'.$thera.'</input></li>';
} ?>
The following should do the trick.
$flattened = array_unique(call_user_func_array('array_merge', $therapie));
or the more efficient alternative (thanks to erisco's comment):
$flattened = array_keys(array_flip(
call_user_func_array('array_merge', $therapie)
));
If $therapie's keys are strings you can drop array_unique.
Alternatively, if you want to avoid call_user_func_array, you can look into the various different ways of flattening a multi-dimensional array. Here are a few (one, two) good questions already on SO detailing several different methods on doing so.
I should also note that this will only work if $therapie is only ever a 2 dimensional array unless you don't want to flatten it completely. If $therapie is more than 2 dimensions and you want to flatten it into 1 dimension, take a look at the questions I linked above.
Relevant doc entries:
array_flip
array_keys
array_merge
array_unique
call_user_func_array
It sounds like the keys of the arrays you are generating are insignificant. If that's the case, you can do a simple merge then determine the unique ones with built in PHP functions:
$array = array_merge($array1, $array2, $array3);
$unique = array_unique($array);
edit: an example:
// Emulate the result of your get_post_meta() call.
$therapie = array(
array('Massagetherapie'),
array('Hot stone'),
array('Massagetherapie'),
);
$array = array();
foreach($therapie as $thera) {
$array = array_merge($array, $thera);
}
$unique = array_unique($array);
print_r($unique);
PHP's array_unique() will remove duplicate values from an array.
$tester = array();
foreach($therapie as $thera) {
array_push($tester, $thera);
}
$result = array_unique($tester);
print_r($result);
So here's the input:
$in['a--b--c--d'] = 'value';
And the desired output:
$out['a']['b']['c']['d'] = 'value';
Any ideas? I've tried the following code without any luck...
$in['a--b--c--d'] = 'value';
// $str = "a']['b']['c']['d";
$str = implode("']['", explode('--', key($in)));
${"out['$str']"} = 'value';
This seems like a prime candidate for recursion.
The basic approach goes something like:
create an array of keys
create an array for each key
when there are no more keys, return the value (instead of an array)
The recursion below does precisely this, during each call a new array is created, the first key in the list is assigned as the key for a new value. During the next step, if there are keys left, the procedure repeats, but when no keys are left, we simply return the value.
$keys = explode('--', key($in));
function arr_to_keys($keys, $val){
if(count($keys) == 0){
return $val;
}
return array($keys[0] => arr_to_keys(array_slice($keys,1), $val));
}
$out = arr_to_keys($keys, $in[key($in)]);
For your example the code above would evaluate as something equivalent to this (but will work for the general case of any number of -- separated items):
$out = array($keys[0] => array($keys[1] => array($keys[2] => array($keys[3] => 'value'))));
Or in more definitive terms it constructs the following:
$out = array('a' => array('b' => array('c' => array('d' => 'value'))));
Which allows you to access each sub-array through the indexes you wanted.
$temp = &$out = array();
$keys = explode('--', 'a--b--c--d');
foreach ($keys as $key) {
$temp[$key] = array();
$temp = &$temp[$key];
}
$temp = 'value';
echo $out['a']['b']['c']['d']; // this will print 'value'
In the code above I create an array for each key and use $temp to reference the last created array. When I run out of keys, I replace the last array with the actual value.
Note that $temp is a REFERENCE to the last created, most nested array.