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Need 'Age' in $MyArray[$i]['Age']


sen5241b

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More detail and context as requested:

I use the following lines of code a lot because I use deal with a lot of multi-dimensional associative arrays:

$headerNames = implode('‖', array_keys(current($AnyArray)));
$ColumnNameLookup = explode('‖', $headerNames);  

$ColumnNameLookup is a lil array to lookup column names in an associative array. I call them 'column names' but in  proper PHP terminology they're called "key names".  As you can see its fairly easy to extract the key names  and put them in a little array. Those two lines of code has made it easy to write some data manipulation functions that can perform all sorts of operations on a specific column name in any generic array I pass to it. E.g.  such as concatenate a string to a string already in the array or highlight a string within a string:

HighlightColumnsWithBadData($AnyArray, $ColumnName)

My current problem:  I have a  func that validates a long list of data elements in a multi-dimensional associative array.  If a particular element, like  'Age' in $MyArray[$i]['Age'] has bad data, then I need to pass the key name 'Age' to a func that reports the data problem. That is why I need the  'Age' in $MyArray[$i]['Age'] or the 'Name' in  $MyArray[$i]['Name'].

Why not:

if ($MyArray[$i]['Age'] >  700) then pass 'Age' to reporting func? 

Key names for the numerous arrays I deal with are not hard coded anywhere in the generic data manipulation funcs and that makes these funcs immune to key renames and flexible enough  to process any array.

 

 

 

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Yep. I use foreaches all the time. I enhanced your code a bit.  Foreach prints the key value  and but not the key name.

<?php
$myArray = array();
$myArray[0] = 'fred';
$myArray[1] = 'Joe';

foreach ($myArray as $key => $value):
  echo '<br> '  . $myArray[$key];
endforeach;

$myArray = array();
$myArray[0]['Name'] = 'fred';
$myArray[0]['Age'] = 55;
$myArray[1]['Name'] = 'Joe';
$myArray[1]['Age']= 765;
print_r($myArray);
foreach ($myArray as $key => $value):
  echo '<br> ';
  echo '<br> '  . $myArray[1]['Age'];
endforeach;
?> 

 

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The key names there - you just have to use it.

$myArray = array();
$myArray[0]['Name'] = 'fred';
$myArray[0]['Age'] = 55;
$myArray[1]['Name'] = 'Joe';
$myArray[1]['Age']= 765;

echo '<pre>', print_r($myArray, 1), '</pre>';

foreach ($myArray as $key => $value):
    echo "<br><b>Person $key:</b><br>";
    foreach ($value as $k => $v) {
        echo " &bull; $k : $v<br>";
    }
endforeach;

Outputs

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [Name] => fred
            [Age] => 55
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [Name] => Joe
            [Age] => 765
        )

)

Person 0:
• Name : fred
• Age : 55

Person 1:
• Name : Joe
• Age : 765

 

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