Re: Dynamically Populating Multi-Dimensional Arrays

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On Thursday, May 31, 2012, Mackintosh, Mike wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I was working on a project and needed to dynamically populate a
> multi-dimensional array based on the size of an array. The script does
> exactly what I want it to do, but I can't imagine that it's done in the
> best way. I used an eval to construct the array based on the number of
> values passed to the index array. When attempting to do the same with
> Variable Variables, the addition of brackets caused the PHP Parser to
> die.
>
>
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions or alternatives to achieving the same
> results?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> Array:
>
>
>
> $array = array(
>
>              array('name' => 'Person1', 'username' => 'username1',
> 'join_date' => 12233445566, 'state' => 'NJ'),
>
>              array('name' => 'Person2', 'username' => 'username2',
> 'join_date' => 12233445566, 'state' => 'NJ'),
>
>              array('name' => 'Person3', 'username' => 'username3',
> 'join_date' => 12233445996, 'state' => 'NY'),
>
>              array('name' => 'Person4', 'username' => 'username4',
> 'join_date' => 12233445996, 'state' => 'NJ'),
>
>              array('name' => 'Person5', 'username' => 'username5',
> 'join_date' => 12233445566, 'state' => 'NJ'),
>
>              array('name' => 'Person6', 'username' => 'username6',
> 'join_date' => 12233445566, 'state' => 'NY'),
>
>              array('name' => 'Person7', 'username' => 'username7',
> 'join_date' => 12233445776, 'state' => 'NY'),
>
>              array('name' => 'Person8', 'username' => 'username8',
> 'join_date' => 12233445566, 'state' => 'NY'),
>
>              array('name' => 'Person9', 'username' => 'username9',
> 'join_date' => 12233445996, 'state' => 'NJ'),
>
> );
>
>
>
>
>
> Function:
>
>
>
> function createIndex($array, $index){
>
>       $index_array = array();
>
>
>
>       foreach($array as $result){
>
>
>
>              if(is_array($index)){
>
>                     $key = '$index_array';
>
>                     for($i=0;$i<=sizeof($index)-1;$i++){
>
>
You should move this  sizeof($index) part out of the loop. It should look
like this
$len=sizeof($index);
for($i=0;$i<$len;$i++)



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