PHP Filter multidimensional-array key with another array

[Tony_146]

What I'm trying to do is read in a worksheet from an excel file and only keep certain columns based on a list in another array. I able to read in the excel sheet using PHPExcel, but haven't been successfully filtering out the unwanted column keys. I have been searching the web and been trying to apply the following: array_intersect_key, functions, array_filter and no success.

      <?php

    /** Include path **/
    set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . '../../../Classes/');

    /** PHPExcel_IOFactory */
    include 'PHPExcel/IOFactory.php';


    //$inputFileType = 'Excel5';
    //  $inputFileType = 'Excel2007';
    //  $inputFileType = 'Excel2003XML';
    //  $inputFileType = 'OOCalc';
    //  $inputFileType = 'Gnumeric';
    $inputFileName = './sampleData/example1.xls';
    $sheetname = 'Visual';

    $inputFileType = PHPExcel_IOFactory::identify($inputFileName);
    echo 'Loading file ',pathinfo($inputFileName,PATHINFO_BASENAME),' using IOFactory with a defined reader type of ',$inputFileType,'<br />';
    $objReader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReader($inputFileType);
    echo 'Loading Sheet "',$sheetname,'" only<br />';
    $objReader->setLoadSheetsOnly($sheetname);
    $objPHPExcel = $objReader->load($inputFileName);


    echo '<hr />';

    echo $objPHPExcel->getSheetCount(),' worksheet',(($objPHPExcel->getSheetCount() == 1) ? '' : 's'),' loaded<br /><br />';
    $loadedSheetNames = $objPHPExcel->getSheetNames();
    foreach($loadedSheetNames as $sheetIndex => $loadedSheetName) {
        echo $sheetIndex,' -> ',$loadedSheetName,'<br />';
    }

    $sheetData = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->toArray(null,true,true,true);

    // Removes NULL values
    foreach($sheetData as $key => &$row) {
        $row = array_filter($row,function($cell){return !is_null($cell);});
        if (count($row) == 0) {
            unset($sheetData[$key]);
        }
    }
    unset ($row);

    unset ($sheetData[1]); // Remove row 1 of spreadsheet 
    unset ($sheetData[2]); // Remove row 2 of spreadsheet

    // columns what to keep, this is just example
    $col_keep = array('A', 'B', 'D', 'K');

    foreach($sheetData as $k=>$v) {
      foreach($v as $c=>$vb){
      echo "$c<br>"; // this display the columns keys e.g A,B,C,etc... 
      // How to filter here with array $col_keep?        
      }
    }

     ?>

[AbraCadaver]

Can you post results of (wrapped in code tags) before you do the unsets:

print_r($sheetData);

[Tony_146]

Here are the results:

Array ( [1] => Array ( [A] => DATE 5/13/13 [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [2] => Array ( [A] => Bunch of numbers [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [3] => Array ( [A] => cat [B] => dog [C] => snake [D] => rat [E] => pig [F] => cow [G] => sheep [H] => horse [I] => fish [J] => hamster [K] => bird [L] => goat [M] => chicken [N] => parrot [O] => shark ) [4] => Array ( [A] => 1 [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [5] => Array ( [A] => [B] => 1 [C] => 2 [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [6] => Array ( [A] => [B] => 3 [C] => 4 [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [7] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => 1 [E] => 2 [F] => 3 [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [8] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => 4 [E] => 5 [F] => 6 [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [9] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => 7 [E] => 8 [F] => 9 [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [10] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => 1 [H] => 2 [I] => 3 [J] => 4 [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [11] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => 5 [H] => 6 [I] => 7 [J] => 8 [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [12] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => 9 [H] => 10 [I] => 11 [J] => 12 [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [13] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => 13 [H] => 14 [I] => 15 [J] => 16 [K] => [L] => [M] => [N] => [O] => ) [14] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => 1 [L] => 2 [M] => 3 [N] => 4 [O] => 5 ) [15] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => 6 [L] => 7 [M] => 8 [N] => 9 [O] => 10 ) [16] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => 11 [L] => 12 [M] => 13 [N] => 14 [O] => 15 ) [17] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => 16 [L] => 17 [M] => 18 [N] => 19 [O] => 20 ) [18] => Array ( [A] => [B] => [C] => [D] => [E] => [F] => [G] => [H] => [I] => [J] => [K] => 21 [L] => 22 [M] => 23 [N] => 24 [O] => 25 ) ) 

[mac_gyver]

i'm not sure how you are going to use this data, but assuming an array that only has the $col_keep columns left in it will work, try this -

$col_keep = array_flip(array('A', 'B', 'D', 'K')); // make these values into the array keys

foreach($sheetData as $k=>$v) { // $v is the array you want to filter
    $keep = array_intersect_key($v,$col_keep); // intersect using the keys
    print_r($keep);
}

[Tony_146]

 

i'm not sure how you are going to use this data, but assuming an array that only has the $col_keep columns left in it will work, try this -

$col_keep = array_flip(array('A', 'B', 'D', 'K')); // make these values into the array keys

foreach($sheetData as $k=>$v) { // $v is the array you want to filter
    $keep = array_intersect_key($v,$col_keep); // intersect using the keys
    print_r($keep);
}

Thanks mac_gyver!!!! Seem simple, think I was overthinking it with the multidimensional array and couldn't get the right combo in the code to work.  Thanks again!