Action for every key and value pair in multidimensional associative array of variable dimensions

[c8372bd7-6af3]

Hi there,

 

I've posted this at stackoverflow but did not receive any replies so far so I'd like to try here as well.

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I have an array of variable dimensions and namings. Sometimes associative, sometimes partially. Sometimes just a single array, sometimes multiple dimensions. An example array is this:

array(4) {
["name"]=>
string(9) "Some Name"
["user"]=>
array(2) {
["id"]=>
int(1)
["msgs"]=>
array(3) {
[0]=>
string(16) "My first message"
[1]=>
string(17) "My second message"
["folder"]=>
array(2) {
["first"]=>
string(13) "Some folder.."
[1]=>
string(17) "some other stuf.."
}
}
}
[0]=>
string(17) "More random stuff"
["foo"]=>
array(2) {
[0]=>
string(10) "more stuff"
["bar"]=>
string(7) "The end"
}
}

I would like to have a function that goes through every key and value pair and performs a function, without altering the structure of the array. In this case, I want to apply htmlspecialchars() with ENT_QUOTES on every key and value pair in the array while keeping the array itself intact structure wise.

I have tried with array_walk_recursive and array_map, neither seem to do the trick.

I'm pretty new to PHP but I tried the following function by messing about with how I think it should be done but it's obviously not working

  private function CreateErrorArray($array, $knownKeys=NULL) {
    if (is_array($array)) {
      foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
        if (is_array($value)) {
          if (is_null($knownKeys)) {  
            $keys = array($key);
            $this->response['ERRORARRAY'][$key] = $this->CreateErrorArray($this->RequestClass->error[$key], $keys);
          } else {
            $keys = array_push($knownKeys, $key);
            $this->response['ERRORARRAY'][$key] = $this->CreateErrorArray($this->RequestClass->error[$knownKeys][$key], $keys);
          }
        } else {
          $this->response['ERRORARRAY'][$key] = $value;
        }
      }
    }
}

[Ch0cu3r]

Create a recursable function, passing the value by reference

function array_escape($array)
{
    // loop over array, 
    foreach($array as $key => &$value)
    {
        // value is array?, call the function again
        if(is_array($value))
            $value = array_escape($value);
        else
            $value = htmlspecialchars($value, ENT_QUOTES); // apply htmlspecialchars
    }

    return $array; // return the array
}

$array = array( 'key1' => '"test"', 
                'key2' => 't\'wp', 
                'some "other \'value\'',
                'key3' => array('name'=> "'part2'", 
                      'age' => 'part3')
            );

printf('<pre>%s</pre>', print_r(array_escape($array), true));

[c8372bd7-6af3]

Hi,

 

Thanks! That works great for $values. In some cases I also want to escape the keynames themselfs, which was a little tricky since PHP does not allow passing $key by reference, but I found the following workaround:

 private function ForEachFn(Array &$array, $fn) {
    $newArray = array();
    foreach ($array as $key=> $value){
      $fn($key, $value);
      $newArray[$key] =$value;
    }
    $array = $newArray;
  }
 
  private function EscapeArrayKeysAndValues($array) {
    foreach($array as $key => $value) {
      $this->ForEachFn($array, function(&$key, &$value) {
        if(is_array($value))
          $value = $this->EscapeArrayKeysAndValues($value); 
        else {
          $value  = htmlspecialchars($value, ENT_QUOTES);
          $key    = htmlspecialchars($key, ENT_QUOTES);
        }
      });
      return $array;
    }
  }
 
 
$this->response['ERRORARRAY'] = $this->EscapeArrayKeysAndValues($this->RequestClass->error);

Thanks to John Erck for the workaround as well.