I have an array $templates
that looks like this:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[displayName] => First Template
[fileName] => path_to_first_template
)
[1] => Array
(
[displayName] => Second Template
[fileName] => path_to_second_template
)
[2] => Array
(
[displayName] => Third template
[fileName] => path_to_third_template
)
)
And I want to make it to look like this:
Array
(
[path_to_first_template] => First Template
[path_to_second_template] => Second Template
[path_to_third_template] => Third Template
)
That is, I want the fileName
of the nested arrays to be the new array's key and displayName
to be its value.
Is there a pretty way to do this without having to loop through the array. I had no luck searching, as I didn't know exactly what to search for.
Here's a classic foreach
in action:
$result = array();
foreach($array as $row) {
$result[$row['fileName']] = $row['displayName'];
};
Here's a "clever" way to do it:
$result = array();
array_walk($array, function($row) use (&$result) {
$result[$row['fileName']] = $row['displayName'];
});
As you can see, the second approach is not really better than the first one. The only advantage is that theoretically you can pile upon the second form because it is a single expression, but in practice it's a long enough expression already so you wouldn't want to do that.
Loop in your array and make a new one:
$newArray = array();
foreach($array as $val){
$newArray[$val['fileName']] = $val['displayName'];
}
print_r($newArray);
$ret = array()
foreach ($templates as $template) {
$ret[$template["fileName"]] = $template["displayName"];
}