PHP - Recursively Search A Multidimensional Array And Return All Parents
Hi, I have a multidimensional array where each array has a parent id node to create a hierarchical tree.
$hierarchy[] = array('id' => 1, 'parent_id' => 0, 'name' = 'root1'); $hierarchy[] = array('id' => 2, 'parent_id' => 0, 'name' = 'root2'); $hierarchy[] = array('id' => 3, 'parent_id' => 1, 'name' = 'root1-1'); $hierarchy[] = array('id' => 4, 'parent_id' => 1, 'name' = 'root1-2'); $hierarchy[] = array('id' => 5, 'parent_id' => 3, 'name' = 'root1-1-1'); $hierarchy[] = array('id' => 6, 'parent_id' => 2, 'name' = 'root2-1'); I'm trying to come up with a recursive key/value search routine that will return all ancestor arrays of the found item without knowing the depth of the tree. All nodes with 0 for the parent_id are root level nodes. Basically I want to search for something like "where key = name and value = xxx" and have it return all ancestors of that node. So if I wanted to search for "key = name and value = root1-1", it should return and array like: array[0] = array('id' => 1, 'parent_id' => 0, 'name' = 'root1'); //parent node first array[1] = array('id' => 3, 'parent_id' => 1, 'name' = 'root1-1'); //first child after parent if I was to search for "key = name and value = root1-1-1", it should return: array[0] = array('id' => 1, 'parent_id' => 0, 'name' = 'root1'); //parent node first array[1] = array('id' => 3, 'parent_id' => 1, 'name' = 'root1-1'); //first child after parent array[2] = array('id' => 5, 'parent_id' => 3, 'name' = 'root1-1-1'); //first grandchild So the main problem comes in the iteration and keeping track of parents. If I just want the array with the answer I can get that node, but I can't get it with all of the ancestors attached. How would you go about this? Any good ideas out there? Thanks! Similar TutorialsHello everyone I'm very new here but i hope you could help me with a tricky problem I no longer know how to approach it because it's difficult to visalize the solution. Anyway, I have a script that goes to the root of a site (with cURL) and picks up categories (links on the site) via regex. All the links are placed into the big array I have. The first layer (dimension) I've managed to create but the problem comes to when I need my script to delve into deeper dimensions. I want, for each link it finds, go to that page and find those subcategories and place it in my array in the correct subarray. If the regex returns 0 matches, go up one step and go to the next node's site, until the whole big array has been exhausted. Is this possible? Please help out guys and gals. I'll provide more info and code if requested. Can anyone let me know what I am doing wrong. I am sure it will (after the fact) be obvious, but I don't see it right now. Wish to remove all array elements which do not implement ValidatorCallbackInterface. Thanks <?php interface ValidatorCallbackInterface{} class ValidatorCallback implements ValidatorCallbackInterface{} function array_filter_recursive($input) { foreach ($input as &$value) { if (is_array($value)) { $value = array_filter_recursive($value); } } return array_filter($input, function($v) { return $v instanceOf ValidatorCallbackInterface; }); } function recursive_unset(&$array) { foreach ($array as $key => $value) { if (is_array($value)) { recursive_unset($value); if(empty($value)) { unset($array[$key]); } } elseif(!$value instanceOf ValidatorCallbackInterface) { unset($array[$key]); } } } $validatorCallback = new ValidatorCallback(); $rules=[ 'callbackId'=>"integer", 'info'=>[ 'arrayofobjects'=>[$validatorCallback], 'foo1'=>'bar1' ], 'foo2'=>'bar2', 'bla'=>[ 'a'=>'aa', 'b'=>'bb', ], 'singleobject'=>$validatorCallback ]; echo('original rules'.PHP_EOL); var_dump($rules); $desiredrules=[ 'info'=>[ 'arrayofobjects'=>[$validatorCallback] ], 'singleobject'=>$validatorCallback ]; echo('desired rules'.PHP_EOL); var_dump($desiredrules); echo('array_filter_recursive'.PHP_EOL); var_dump(array_filter_recursive($rules)); echo('recursive_unset'.PHP_EOL); recursive_unset($rules); var_dump($rules);
original rules array(5) { ["callbackId"]=> string(7) "integer" ["info"]=> array(2) { ["arrayofobjects"]=> array(1) { [0]=> object(ValidatorCallback)#1 (0) { } } ["foo1"]=> string(4) "bar1" } ["foo2"]=> string(4) "bar2" ["bla"]=> array(2) { ["a"]=> string(2) "aa" ["b"]=> string(2) "bb" } ["singleobject"]=> object(ValidatorCallback)#1 (0) { } } desired rules array(2) { ["info"]=> array(1) { ["arrayofobjects"]=> array(1) { [0]=> object(ValidatorCallback)#1 (0) { } } } ["singleobject"]=> object(ValidatorCallback)#1 (0) { } } array_filter_recursive array(1) { ["singleobject"]=> object(ValidatorCallback)#1 (0) { } } recursive_unset array(2) { ["info"]=> array(2) { ["arrayofobjects"]=> array(1) { [0]=> object(ValidatorCallback)#1 (0) { } } ["foo1"]=> string(4) "bar1" } ["singleobject"]=> object(ValidatorCallback)#1 (0) { } }
I have the following array structu Code: [Select] [0] => Array ( [id] => Array ( [$t] => http://www.google.com/mate/ ) [updated] => Array ( [$t] => 2011-08-31T11:43:05.942Z ) [category] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [scheme] => http://schemas.google.com/g/ [term] => http://schemas.google.com/contact/ ) ) [title] => Array ( [type] => text [$t] => Name ) [link] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [rel] => http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#edit-photo [type] => image/* [href] => https://www.google.com/mate/feeds/photos/media/ ) [1] => Array ( [rel] => self [type] => application/atom+xml [href] => https://www.google.com/mate/feeds/contacts ) [2] => Array ( [rel] => edit [type] => application/atom+xml [href] => https://www.google.com/mate/feeds/ ) ) [gd$email] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [rel] => http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#other [address] => email_address@gmail.com [primary] => true ) ) ) I am tried to display name and email address. I am using following method, can anyone tell me is there any better way? Thank u 4u help. NAME $name=( $emp_det[0]['title'][t]); $email =( $emp_det[0]['gdemail'][0][address]); Hi, I'm trying to explode an array into a multidimensional array using <br /> tags as splitters but just can't get the syntax right! I can do lines of the array one by one, but not the whole lot at once. I'd really appreciate a quick example of an explode inside an array. $myarray looks something like this with print_r: ( [0] => [1] => some_html<br />some_html<br />some_html<br /> [2] => some_html<br />some_html<br />some_html<br /> [3] => some_html<br />some_html<br />some_html<br /> ) and I want to turn it into this: ( [0] => [1] => [0]some_html [1]some_html [2]some_html [2] => [0]some_html [1]some_html [2]some_html [3] => [0]some_html [1]some_html [2]some_html ) I've tried this $myarray = explode ("<br />", $myarray); but it doesn't work … It doesn't matter too much if there's are a few empty lines in the array from the final <br /> tags. Many thanks, as ever, for any help. I've been working on some code to: 1. Search a db for rows that have a particular "position" value 2. Search the same db for rows that have a particular "langs" value 3. Compare the two arrays resulting for 1 and 2 4. Create a multidimensional array $langsarray[langs][question id] if 3 is true. 5. For each langs array in $langsarray pick a random, non-duplicate value and add it to $qarray for a maximum of 12 elements (3 for each langs). What I have works about 95%. The problem is, in the first langs array, one of the 3 randomly picked values is almost always empty, and its not always the same element. Sometimes its the first, sometimes its the third, sometimes its the second... I think I've narrowed down the issue to line 44 ($qtemp = ...). If I change the min/max values for the mt_rand function, it behaves slightly differently. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance. Code: //Include MYSQL class and authentication information require_once('./include/mysql.php'); require_once('./include/global.php'); //Grab apptype from URL querystring $apptype = $_GET['apptype']; //Declare arrays $qarray = array(); $posarray = array(); $langs = array(); $langsarray = array(); //Get id's of all questions pertaining to position type $sql = 'SELECT * FROM qa WHERE position = "' . $apptype . '"'; $result = $db->query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); while ($row = $result->fetch()) { $posarray[] = $row['id']; } //Determine what types of questions should be pulled if ($apptype == 'fed'){ $langs = array('html','css','javascript','jquery'); } else if($apptype == 'bed'){ $langs = array('php','asp','javascript','jquery'); } //Get each question of each language that matches the position type and store it in the multidimensional array $langsarray[language][question id] $z = 0; while ($z < count($langs)){ $sql = 'SELECT * FROM qa WHERE langs = "' . $langs[$z] . '"'; $result = $db->query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); while ($row = $result->fetch()) { if (in_array($row['id'],$posarray)){ $langsarray[$langs[$z]][] = $row['id']; } } //Takes a random question id from the current language ($z) and adds it to the final question array. $y = 0; while ($y < 3) { //$qtemp = $langsarray[$langs[$z]][mt_rand(0,count($langsarray[$langs[$z]]))]; $qtemp = $langsarray[$langs[$z]][mt_rand(0,count($posarray))]; if (!in_array($qtemp,$qarray)){ $qarray[] = $qtemp; echo $qtemp . ', '; $y++; } } echo $langs[$z]; print_r( $langsarray[$langs[$z]]); echo '<br />'; $z++; } echo '<br />'; print_r($qarray); Output: 5, , 2, htmlArray ( => 1 [1] => 2 [2] => 3 [3] => 4 [4] => 5 ) <--Problem 7, 6, 9, cssArray ( => 6 [1] => 7 [2] => 8 [3] => 9 [4] => 10 ) 14, 15, 13, javascriptArray ( => 11 [1] => 12 [2] => 13 [3] => 14 [4] => 15 ) 21, 17, 20, jqueryArray ( => 16 [1] => 17 [2] => 18 [3] => 19 [4] => 20 [5] => 21 ) Array ( => 5 [1] => [2] => 2 [3] => 7 [4] => 6 [5] => 9 [6] => 14 [7] => 15 [8] => 13 [9] => 21 [10] => 17 [11] => 20 ) <-- Final $qarray I need to extract data from a CSV file and insert it into a MySQL database. I am able to extract the data, however I cannot figure out how to group it. Sample File: 01 ISBN Name of Book Price 02 ISBN Name of Book Price So far I have an array with the entire file (reading file with PHP): Array ([0] => 01 [1] => 12345678X [2] => Title [3] => 120.00 ...etc. How can I modify the array to create groups of four for each item? Each item is its own array? I am looking at the code below: Code: [Select] $array = array( array( 1, 2 ), 'a' => array( 'b' => 1, 'c' ) ); Is this an example of a multidimensional array? If so how would I access the value of 1 from key b? Also would the next line ('c') be automatically assigned to the asociative key of c? Hi everybody, I generally find any assistance that I need on various sites, but this one has me stumped. I'm not overly advanced with my use of arrays, so I'd like some help here if anyone knows what I am looking for. I have a form that I would like to submit to a MySQL database. In that form, there is the ability to add up to 3 harddrives: Code: [Select] Brand: <input type="text" name="hdds[0][hddbrand]" id="hddbrand"><br/> Model and/or size,type: <input type="text" name="hdds[0][hddtype]" id="hddtype"><br/> SN: <input type="text" name="hdds[0][hddsn]" id="hddsn"><br/> Notes: <input type="text" name="hdds[0][hddnotes]" id="hddnotes" size="50"> Obviously the next harddrive would be hdds[1][hddbrand], etc. I am having an awful time looping through this to get more than 1 harddrive's information, however. I've tried foreach embedded in foreach and been messing around with this for a good 3-4 hours now and I feel like I am just missing something. I've got this right now to debug: Code: [Select] foreach($_POST['hdds'] as $key => $a) { $hddbrand = $a['hddbrand']; } my print_r($a) comes up with the following: Code: [Select] Array ( [hddbrand] => Toshiba [hddtype] => Shaba 500gb [hddsn] => 5fu8bvw4 [hddnotes] =>none ) 1 Good. That's what I want. But I need some help constructing my array/loop to get the values of more than 1 drive should I have to enter information for more than 1 drive. I feel like I am close, but I am just not getting what I need. I have not had to work with multidimensional arrays before and they are proving to be more trickier than I expected. Any help would be enormously appreciated! Patrick I am trying to store all the elements of my tree in an array.My code produces multi dimensional array, but i want it to be one dimensional. How can i get it ? Code:- Code: [Select] function tree_gather($node) //Function to calculate count { $sql = "SELECT lchild,rchild FROM tree WHERE parent = '$node'"; $execsql = mysql_query($sql); $array = mysql_fetch_array($execsql); if(!empty($array['lchild']) || !empty($array['rchild'])) { $child[] = $array['lchild']; $child[] = $array['rchild']; $child[] = tree_gather($array['lchild']); $child[] = tree_gather($array['rchild']); } return $child; } Result:- Code: [Select] Array ( [0] => 2 [1] => 3 [2] => Array ( [0] => 4 [1] => 5 [2] => Array ( [0] => 10 [1] => 11 [2] => [3] => ) [3] => Array ( [0] => 8 [1] => 9 [2] => [3] => ) ) [3] => Array ( [0] => 7 [1] => 6 [2] => Array ( [0] => 15 [1] => 14 [2] => Array ( [0] => 16 [1] => 17 [2] => [3] => ) [3] => ) [3] => Array ( [0] => 13 [1] => 12 [2] => [3] => ) ) ) Table: - Hi freaks, Got a simple one for ya, I THINK? I have a multi-array that resembles this.. Code: [Select] $_SESSION["book_array"] = array(0 => array("plantID" => $plantID, "botanicalName" => $botanicalName, "commonName" => $commonName, "use" => $use)); I would like to sort it by the botanicalName key of the inner array before I call the forech loop that renders the display so that after it renders the table the items will be seen alphabetically, code below.. Code: [Select] <?php $bookOutput = ""; //$plant_use_array = ''; if (!isset($_SESSION["book_array"]) || count($_SESSION["book_array"]) < 1) { $bookOutput = '<tr><td colspan="4"><h6>Your Book is EMPTY!</h6></td></tr>'; } else { // Start the For Each loop $i = 0; foreach ($_SESSION["book_array"] as $each_item) { $plantID = $each_item['plantID']; $botanicalName = $each_item['botanicalName']; $botanicalName = stripslashes($botanicalName); $commonName = $each_item['commonName']; $commonName = stripslashes($commonName); $use = $each_item['use']; //$x = $i + 1; // Dynamic table row assembly $bookOutput .= "<tr>"; $bookOutput .= '<td><a href="plant_details.php?plantID=' . $plantID . '" id="bodyLink">' . $botanicalName . '</a></td>'; $bookOutput .= '<td>' . $commonName . '</td>'; $bookOutput .= '<td><strong>' . $use . '</strong></td>'; $bookOutput .= '<td><form action="book.php" method="post"><input name="removeBtn" type="submit" value="Remove"/><input name="index_to_remove" type="hidden" value="' . $i . '" /></form></td>'; $bookOutput .= '</tr>'; $i++; } } ?> Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance. I recently posted a simple query about ISSET and finally got that simple problem solved thanks to you guys. But I've hit a new snag. I've create a simple sort of cart, or record counter. While I can add/remove/clear items and display their affilated arrays, I don't know how to cycle through a multidimensional array that is dynamically set.
Something like $_SESSION['Primary'][$items][$attributes] - Where $items is a dynamic set, and $attributes is a fixed set of keys with values.
I can target individual $Items, or display all the items in there. But I can't display all the Items and their subsequent $attributes aswell. Do I have to write 1 set of Ajax code for just displaying the $items, and another for each individual set of $attributes? Or is their a way to cycle through each $item, and then all of it's(or specific) $attributes and values? I've tried using loops which logically work, but I can't pass it through json_encode.
Is there any documentation I could read in relation to this? I feel this is the key component to manuvering through a database of sorts. I'm just not entirely sure how to go about accessing multidimensional Array's without a ton of code that becomes redudent. And even then, it wouldnt work well with a dynamic setup.
Edited by 7blake, 07 November 2014 - 01:39 PM. I am a beginner, so forgive me all to whom this is trivial... I have an array, generated from simpleXML object, trying to parse... The array is not symmetrical & I am having trouble finding the right code to make it work. Help & comments are welcomed.. Here is the raw array with print_r: Code: [Select] Array ( [Area] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [Name] => Basement [Id] => 1 [Room] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [Name] => Equipment [Id] => 1 ) [1] => Array ( [Name] => Theater [Id] => 9 ) [2] => Array ( [Name] => Wine Cellar [Id] => 10 ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [Name] => 1st Floor [Id] => 2 [Room] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [Name] => Kitchen [Id] => 2 ) [1] => Array ( [Name] => Main Hall [Id] => 4 ) [2] => Array ( [Name] => Foyer [Id] => 8 ) [3] => Array ( [Name] => Stone Room [Id] => 14 ) [4] => Array ( [Name] => Garage Foyer [Id] => 16 ) [5] => Array ( [Name] => Dining Room [Id] => 17 ) [6] => Array ( [Name] => Living Room [Id] => 18 ) [7] => Array ( [Name] => Hearth Room [Id] => 19 ) [8] => Array ( [Name] => Office [Id] => 20 ) [9] => Array ( [Name] => Powder Room [Id] => 21 ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [Name] => 2nd Floor [Id] => 3 [Room] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [Name] => Landing [Id] => 7 ) [1] => Array ( [Name] => Master Bedroom [Id] => 11 ) [2] => Array ( [Name] => Nannys Room [Id] => 13 ) [3] => Array ( [Name] => East Kids Bed [Id] => 27 ) [4] => Array ( [Name] => West Kids Bed [Id] => 28 ) [5] => Array ( [Name] => Kids Bath [Id] => 29 ) [6] => Array ( [Name] => Robs Closet [Id] => 31 ) [7] => Array ( [Name] => Kelli's Office [Id] => 32 ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [Name] => 3rd Floor [Id] => 7 [Room] => Array ( [Name] => Bonus room [Id] => 5 ) ) [4] => Array ( [Name] => Outside Areas [Id] => 8 [Room] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [Name] => Veranda [Id] => 22 ) [1] => Array ( [Name] => Back Outdoor [Id] => 23 ) [2] => Array ( [Name] => Christmas Lights [Id] => 33 ) [3] => Array ( [Name] => Front Outdoor [Id] => 34 ) [4] => Array ( [Name] => Garage [Id] => 35 ) [5] => Array ( [Name] => Poolhouse Kitchen [Id] => 24 ) [6] => Array ( [Name] => Poolhouse Utility [Id] => 25 ) ) ) ) ) Here is the code: Code: [Select] foreach($xml2['Area'] as $v){ echo $v['Name'],' <br>'; foreach($v['Room'] as $v2){ echo ' ',$v2['Name'],' <br>'; } } Here is the result: Code: [Select] Basement Equipment Theater Wine Cellar 1st Floor Kitchen Main Hall Foyer Stone Room Garage Foyer Dining Room Living Room Hearth Room Office Powder Room 2nd Floor Landing Master Bedroom Nannys Room East Kids Bed West Kids Bed Kids Bath Robs Closet Kelli's Office 3rd Floor B 5 Outside Areas Veranda Back Outdoor Christmas Lights Front Outdoor Garage Poolhouse Kitchen Poolhouse Utility The problem lies with the "3rd Floor" which should contain "Bonus Room" as the room. I know that this is the only element that has no "Rooms" array, but I can't figure out how to code the trap for it. With this data, the condition could exist anywhere, not just my example, but I am stumped with the non symmetrical array that I am unfamiliar with. Any help? Thanks. --akaweed Hi All I'm new to php and I have a multidimensional array set up which I need to sort for a results list from an assessment. The array is $gradout['name']['userid']=score. I need to sort the array by score in a decending order. ['name'] is a string and ['userid'] is a numeric. I've tried looking at the php manual but It's just confusing me. Can anyone explain to me in laymans terms what I need to do and why. I am having trouble searching for an item in a multi-dimensional array. Is there a way to search only one column in a multi-dimensional array? i.e: MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY ID Name DataTable 0 John Employee 1 Dan Employee 2 Matt Boss 3 Becky Supervisor Is there a way to only search the column "Name"(Column 2) using array_search() or similar? (i.e array_search("John",$ARRAY[Column2]) The help would be very much appreciated! Cheers, Dan Hi, I have an array of type array_name[roll_number][aggregate_marks]. How do I sort such array on 'aggregate_marks'? My attempts on sort, asort haven't worked. Hi All How do I go about splitting a multidimensional array into seperate smaller ones? Currently I have $grade[region][userid]=value. I'd like to split as $region1[userid]=value $region2[userid]=value $region3[userid]=value $region4[userid]=value $region5[userid]=value $region6[userid]=value Is there an inbuilt function for this? Code: [Select] while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) { $id = $row['id']; $col1 = $row['name1']; $col2= $row['name2']; $col3= $row['name3']; ${"$id"} = array("$col1","$col2","$col3"); ${"$s".$i}[] = ${"$id"}; } This is just a brief example of what i'm trying to accomplish,$i is incremented somewhere else. I'm trying to implode the arrays in the array. So below i have imploded the main array but how do i implode the other arrays? Code: [Select] for($i=0;$i<11;$i++) { $array = ${"s" . $i}; $outcomes = implode("",$array); //implodes main array } I want to create an array based on data in a multidimensional array. Take, for example: $table[1] = array('husband' => array ('firstname'=> 'Albert', 'lastname' => 'Einstein', 'age' => 129), 'wife' => array ('firstname' => 'Mileva', 'lastname' => 'Einstein', 'age' => 128)); What would be the best approach, when you want to create an array with only the last names or the ages? Are there some things like wildcards in the PHP array universe to skip the first array level? Any suggestion is very appreciated. I tried several strategies, but ended up creating the same mulitdimensional array as above. Hey guys im trying to insert these values from this array into the distance function I made and then it turns it into a string. Took me like 8 hours of problem solving just to find out this wasnt working. really could use some help with this. $arr is the array Array ( [0] => Array ( [b_x] => 85 [b_y] => 71 ) [1] => Array ( [b_x] => 436 [b_y] => 130 ) $b_x = 295; $b_y = 163; foreach($arr as $db) { $db_x = $db['b_x']; $db_y = $db['b_y']; $distance .= distance($b_x,$b_y,$db_y,$db_x) . "-"; } end result is suppose to look like $distance-$distance-$distance and so forth how to create multidimensional array in php |