Need routine to tell me number of dimensions in array.

["Daevid Vincent" <daevid@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone have a function that will return an integer of the number of
dimensions an array has?

I did some quick searches and came up with nothing. 
The closest was here of someone asking the same thing, but his solution
isn't right:
http://www.bigresource.com/PHP-count-array-dimensions-VrIahx1b.html
http://php.net/manual/en/function.count.php

>From a human standpoint, it's easy to see, "oh, this is a TWO
dimensional"...

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => Data marked as faulty or timestamps before 2005 or in
the future (2035)
            [1] => bad_data
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => Hardware Part Numbers
            [1] => hardware_part_numbers
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] => Software Part Numbers
            [1] => software_part_numbers
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [0] => Software Version Number
            [1] => software_version_numbers
        )

    [4] => Array
        (
            [0] => Configuration Part Numbers
            [1] => configuration_part_numbers
        )

)

>From a programatic POV, it's not quite that easy to see "this is a THREE
dimensional", since element [0][0] is missing and it actually starts at
[0][1], so you can't do an is_array($foo[0][0]) on it (but if you did on
[0][1] it would pass) so you have to itterate over ALL elements of the
array until you find one that hits or you exhaust that dimension. But then
you have to traverse any subdimensions too, most likely recursively.

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [1] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Aircraft Registration
                    [1] => aircraft_registration
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Aircraft Type-Subtype
                    [1] => aircraft_type_subtype
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [0] => System
                    [1] => system_type_name
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Flight Count
                    [1] => flight_count
                )

...


Then it gets even more complex as this has all sorts of holes in it...

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Flight Number
                    [1] => flight_number
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Timestamp Departure
                    [1] => timestamp_departure
                )

            [6] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Timestamp Arrival
                    [1] => timestamp_arrival
                )

            [8] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Departure City
                    [1] => departure_city
                )

            [9] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Arrival City
                    [1] => arrival_city
                )

Now I could take the time to dig in and figure this all out, but I thought
maybe someone already had a solution they could share?


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