In case anyone is wondering how array_flip() treats empty arrays:
<?php
print_r(array_flip(array()));
?>
results in:
Array
(
)
I wanted to know if it would return false and/or even chuck out an error if there were no key-value pairs to flip, despite being non-intuitive if that were the case. But (of course) everything works as expected. Just a head's up for the paranoid.
array_flip
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
array_flip — Vertauscht alle Schlüssel mit ihren zugehörigen Werten in einem Array
Beschreibung
$trans
)
array_flip() gibt ein Array in vertauschter
Reihenfolge aus, d.h. die Schlüssel von trans werden zu
Werten und die Werte von trans werden zu Schlüsseln.
Beachten Sie, dass die Werte von trans gültige
Schlüssel sein müssen, d.h. sie müssen entweder Integer
oder String sein. Ist ein Wert vom falschen Typ, so wird
eine Warnung ausgegeben, und das Schlüssel/Wert-Paar wird
nicht vertauscht.
Kommt ein Wert mehrmals vor, so wird der letzte Schlüssel als Wert verwendet und alle anderen Werte gehen verloren.
Parameter-Liste
-
trans -
Ein Array mit Schlüssel/Wertpaaren die vertauscht werden sollen.
Rückgabewerte
Gibt im Erfolgsfall das vertauschte Array zurück und im
Fehlerfall NULL.
Beispiele
Beispiel #1 array_flip()-Beispiel
<?php
$trans = array_flip($trans);
$original = strtr($str, $trans);
?>
Beispiel #2 array_flip()-Beispiel: Kollision
<?php
$trans = array("a" => 1, "b" => 1, "c" => 2);
$trans = array_flip($trans);
print_r($trans);
?>
nun ist $trans:
Array
(
[1] => b
[2] => c
)
Siehe auch
- array_values() - Liefert alle Werte eines Arrays
- array_keys() - Liefert alle Schlüssel oder eine Teilmenge aller Schlüssel eines Arrays
- array_reverse() - Liefert ein Array mit umgekehrter Reihenfolge der Elemente
array_flip
26-Apr-2007 10:37
06-Mar-2007 07:13
It might seem obvious, but if you want to remove duplicates from an array, you can use array_flip() twice:
$arr = array_flip(array_flip($arr));
06-Feb-2006 11:42
Further deriving on benles -> crescentfreshpot, I think the following restatement of array_invert() reads much easier and probably runs faster, too. It does yield the same results:
function array_invert($arr) {
$flipped = array();
foreach ( $arr as $k => $a ) {
# put the value in the key, with a throw-away value. dups are inherently avoided,
# though overwritten. not sure if prefixing with if ( !isset($flipped[$a][$k]) )
# would speed this up or slow it down. probably depends on quantity of dups.
$flipped[$a][$k] = NULL;
}
foreach ( $flipped as $k => $fl ) {
# now make the keys the values.
$flipped[$k] = array_keys($fl);
}
return $flipped;
}
04-Jul-2005 01:21
Furthering benles note, if you don't want duplicate values to overwrite existing keys but need non-duplicate values to be assigned like array_flip, use:
<?php
function array_invert($arr)
{
$flipped = array();
foreach(array_keys($arr) as $key) {
if(array_key_exists($arr[$key],$flipped)) {
$flipped[$arr[$key]] = array_merge((array)$flipped[$arr[$key]], (array)$key);
} else {
$flipped[$arr[$key]] = $key;
}
}
return $flipped;
}
$a = array(
'orange' => 'fruit',
'milk' => 'dairy',
'apple' => 'fruit',
'banana' => 'fruit'
);
print_r(array_invert($a));
/*
Output:
Array
(
[fruit] => Array
(
[0] => orange
[1] => apple
[2] => banana
)
[dairy] => milk
)
*/
?>
06-Mar-2005 02:52
In case anyone wants a function that doesn't lose duplicates:
function array_invert($arr)
{
$res = Array();
foreach(array_keys($arr) as $key)
{
if (!array_key_exists($arr[$key], $res)) $res[$arr[$key]] = Array();
array_push($res[$arr[$key]], $key);
}
return $res;
}
23-Nov-2004 08:21
When you do array_flip, it takes the last key accurence for each value, but be aware that keys order in flipped array will be in the order, values were first seen in original array. For example, array:
[1] => 1
[2] => 2
[3] => 3
[4] => 3
[5] => 2
[6] => 1
[7] => 1
[8] => 3
[9] => 3
After flipping will become:
(first seen value -> first key)
[1] => 7
[2] => 5
[3] => 9
And not anything like this:
(last seen value -> last key)
[2] => 5
[1] => 7
[3] => 9
In my application I needed to find five most recently commented entries. I had a sorted comment-id => entry-id array, and what popped in my mind is just do array_flip($array), and I thought I now would have last five entries in the array as most recently commented entry => comment pairs. In fact it wasn't (see above, as it is the order of values used). To achieve what I need I came up with the following (in case someone will need to do something like that):
First, we need a way to flip an array, taking the first encountered key for each of values in array. You can do it with:
$array = array_flip(array_unique($array));
Well, and to achieve that "last comments" effect, just do:
$array = array_reverse($array, true);
$array = array_flip(array_unique($array));
$array = array_reverse($array, true);
In the example from the very beginning array will become:
[2] => 5
[1] => 7
[3] => 9
Just what I (and maybe you?) need. =^_^=
05-Aug-2003 11:42
I know a lot of people want a function to remove a key by value from an array. I saw solutions that iterate(!) though the whole array comparing value by value and then unsetting that value's key. PHP has a built-in function for pretty much everything (heard it will even cook you breakfast), so if you think "wouldn't it be cool if PHP had a function to do that...", odds are it already has. Check out this example. It takes a value, gets all keys for that value if it has duplicates, unsets them all, and returns a reindexed array.
<?php
$arr = array(11,12,13,12); // sample array
$arr = array_flip($arr);
unset($arr[12]);
$arr = array(array_keys($arr));
?>
$arr contains:
<?php
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => 11
[1] => 13
)
?>
)
06-Mar-2003 08:58
If you need traspose an array (i.e convert columns in rows) for a multidimensional array obtain from a SQL query, try this:
That is an array from arrays that represent each columns.
Array
(
[col1] => Array
(
[0] => 10
[1] => 100
[2] => 200
[3] => a
)
[col2] => Array
(
[0] => 1
[1] => 3
[2] => 2
[3] => 5
)
)
<?php
$arreglo_aux = Array();
foreach( $arreglo as $keymaster => $value )
foreach( $value as $key => $elemento )
$arreglo_aux[$key][$keymaster] = $elemento;
?>
the results will be
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[col1] => 10
[col2] => 1
)
[1] => Array
(
[col1] => 100
[col2] => 3
)
[2] => Array
(
[col1] => 200
[col2] => 2
)
[3] => Array
(
[col1] => a
[col2] => 5
)
)
Bye.
Rodrigo González M. - CHILE