- Accessing All Elements of Numeric Arrays
- Accessing All Elements of Associative Arrays
- Accessing All Array Elements in Nested Arrays
- Turning an Array into Variables
- Converting Strings to Arrays
- Converting Arrays to Strings
- Sorting Arrays Alphabetically
- Sorting Associative Arrays Alphabetically
- Sorting Nested Arrays
- Sorting Nested Associative Arrays
- Sorting IP Addresses (as a Human Would)
- Sorting Anything
- Sorting with Foreign Languages
- Applying an Effect to All Array Elements
- Filtering Arrays
- Getting Random Elements Out of Arrays
- Making Objects Behave Like Arrays
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Accessing All Array Elements in Nested Arrays
print_r($a);
<pre>
<?php
$a = array(
'Roman' =>
array('one' => 'I', 'two' => 'II', 'three' => 'III', 'four' => 'IV'),
'Arabic' =>
array('one' => '1', 'two' => '2', 'three' => '3', 'four' => '4')
);
print_r($a);
?>
</pre>
Printing a Nested Array with print_r (print_r.php)
Nested arrays can be printed really easily by using print_r(). Take a look at the output of the listing in Figure 2.1.
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Figure 2.1. Printing array contents with print_r()
However, the output of the preceding code (see Figure 2.1) is hardly usable for more than debugging purposes. Therefore, a clever way to access all data must be found. A recursive function is a reasonable way to achieve this. In this, all elements of an array are printed out; the whole output is indented using the HTML element <blockquote>. If the array element’s value is an array itself, however, the function calls itself recursively, which leads to an additional level of indention. Whether something is an array can be determined using the PHP function is_array(). Using this, the following code can be assembled; see Figure 2.2 for the result:
<?php
function printNestedArray($a) {
echo '<blockquote>';
foreach ($a as $key => $value) {
echo htmlspecialchars("$key: ");
if (is_array($value)) {
printNestedArray($value);
} else {
echo htmlspecialchars($value) . '<br />';
}
}
echo '</blockquote>';
}
$arr = array(
'Roman' =>
array('one' => 'I', 'two' => 'II', 'three' => 'III', 'four' => 'IV'),
'Arabic' =>
array('one' => '1', 'two' => '2', 'three' => '3', 'four' => '4')
);
printNestedArray($arr);
?>
Printing a Nested Array Using a Recursive Function (printNestedArray.php)
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Figure 2.2. Printing array contents using a recursive function