Reformating associative arrays - php

Question

To be more specific I want to turn the following array into an associative one. The original array is indexed like [0],[1],[2],…[n]. The function I used was Set::combine of Cakephp but I couldn't recreate all three levels of the desired associative array.
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[ACCOUNTS] => Array
(
[description] => A
)
[HEADERS] => Array
(
[description] => B
)
[COLUMNS] => Array
(
[description] => C
[id] => 8
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[ACCOUNTS] => Array
(
[description] => A1
)
[HEADERS] => Array
(
[description] => B1
)
[COLUMNS] => Array
(
[description] => C1
[id] => 9
)
)
)
The array I want to end up is the following associative array:
Array
(
[A] => Array
(
[B] => Array
(
[C] => 8
)
)
[A1] => Array
(
[B1] => Array
(
[C1] => 9
)
)
)
I can't recreate all (3) levels of the array above.

Answer 1

Do you mean like:
$newarray = array($first['ACCOUNTS']['description'] => array($first['HEADERS']['description'] => array($first['COLUMNS']['description'] => $first['COLUMNS']['id'])));
So if you run the following it gives what you want:
$first = array(
'ACCOUNTS' => array('description' => 'A'),
'HEADERS' => array('description' => 'B'),
'COLUMNS' => array('description' => 'C', 'id' => '8'));
echo "<pre>";
print_r($first);
$newarray = array($first['ACCOUNTS']['description'] =>
array($first['HEADERS']['description'] =>
array($first['COLUMNS']['description'] =>
$first['COLUMNS']['id'])));
print_r($newarray);
You then end up with:
Array
(
[ACCOUNTS] => Array
(
[description] => A
)
[HEADERS] => Array
(
[description] => B
)
[COLUMNS] => Array
(
[description] => C
[id] => 8
)
)
Array
(
[A] => Array
(
[B] => Array
(
[C] => 8
)
)
)