Because the function was not available in my version of PHP, I wrote my own version and extended it a little based on my needs.
When you give an $indexkey value of -1 it preserves the associated array key values.
EXAMPLE:
$sample = array(
'test1' => array(
'val1' = 10,
'val2' = 100
),
'test2' => array(
'val1' = 20,
'val2' = 200
),
'test3' => array(
'val1' = 30,
'val2' = 300
)
);
print_r(array_column_ext($sample,'val1'));
OUTPUT:
Array
(
[0] => 10
[1] => 20
[2] => 30
)
print_r(array_column_ext($sample,'val1',-1));
OUTPUT:
Array
(
['test1'] => 10
['test2'] => 20
['test3'] => 30
)
print_r(array_column_ext($sample,'val1','val2'));
OUTPUT:
Array
(
[100] => 10
[200] => 20
[300] => 30
)
<?php
function array_column_ext($array, $columnkey, $indexkey = null) {
$result = array();
foreach ($array as $subarray => $value) {
if (array_key_exists($columnkey,$value)) { $val = $array[$subarray][$columnkey]; }
else if ($columnkey === null) { $val = $value; }
else { continue; }
if ($indexkey === null) { $result[] = $val; }
elseif ($indexkey == -1 || array_key_exists($indexkey,$value)) {
$result[($indexkey == -1)?$subarray:$array[$subarray][$indexkey]] = $val;
}
}
return $result;
}
?>
