So, having an array like the following:
$input = [
'first_name' => 'Alex',
'last_name' => 'UFO',
'email' => 'test@test.com',
'phone_number' => '124124',
// .....
'referral_first_name' => 'Jason',
'referral_last_name' => 'McNugget',
'referral_email' => 'jingleball@nuggets.com',
'referral_phone_number' => '1212415',
];
After processing the first part, until referral...
, do you think of any better way to replace referral_first_name
with first_name
and so on, then the following? Maybe a more dynamic and automatic way.
$input['first_name'] = $input['referral_first_name'];
unset($input['referral_first_name']);
$input['last_name'] = $input['referral_last_name'];
unset($input['referral_last_name']);
$input['email'] = $input['referral_email'];
unset($input['referral_email']);
$input['phone_number'] = $input['referral_phone_number'];
unset($input['referral_phone_number']);
Guys, I forgot to mention, but I have already done it with foreach
, but the problem will be when the array gets pretty large (and usually does, and not by one person using that function, but by many), and that would mean extra unnecessary processing time, since it has to iterate through the whole array, before reaching the referral_..
part.
array_walk
to modify that temp array to add the referral
word to itarray_combine
using the above keys and values from the old array.<?php
$input = [
'first_name' => 'Alex',
'last_name' => 'UFO',
'email' => 'test@test.com',
'phone_number' => '124124'];
$ak = array_keys($input);
array_walk($ak,function (&$v){ $v = 'referral_'.$v;});
$input=array_combine($ak,array_values($input));
print_r($input);
OUTPUT:
Array
(
[referral_first_name] => Alex
[referral_last_name] => UFO
[referral_email] => test@test.com
[referral_phone_number] => 124124
)
foreach
$newarr = array();
foreach($input as $k=>$v ) {
$newarr["referral_".$k]=$v;
}
How about something like this:
$replace = array('first_name', 'last_name', 'email');
foreach($replace AS $key) {
$input[$key] = $input['referral_' . $key];
unset($input[$input['referral_' .$key]]);
}
try the below one...
$input = [
//'first_name' => 'Alex',
// 'last_name' => 'UFO',
// 'email' => 'test@test.com',
//'phone_number' => '124124',
// .....
'referral_first_name' => 'Jason',
'referral_last_name' => 'McNugget',
'referral_email' => 'jingleball@nuggets.com',
'referral_phone_number' => '1212415',
];
foreach ($input as $key=>$value){
$refereal_pos = strpos($key, 'referral_');
if($refereal_pos !== FALSE && $refereal_pos == 0){
$input[str_replace('referral_', '', $key)] = $value;
unset($input[$key]);
}
}
print_r($input);
you must create another array, this code should do it dynamically:
$newInput = array();
foreach($input as $key => $element){
$newKey = explode("_", $key, 2);
$newInput[$newKey[1]] = $element;
}
OUTPUT
hope this helps :-)
You can use following;
function changeKeys($input) {
$keys = array_keys($input);
foreach($keys as $key) {
if (strpos($key, "referral_") !== false) {
$tempKey = explode("referral_", $key);
$input[$tempKey[1]] = $input[$key];
unset($input[$key]);
}
}
return $input;
}
changeKeys($input);
Here is a working demo: codepad
Note: Be sure that, your keys overwrited due to duplicate keys after "referral_" removal