I need to be able to swap given values if they are present in a multidimensional array.
$cars = array
(
array("Volvo", "Silver", "Silver Metallic"),
array("BMW", "Red", "Sunset Red")
);
For example if I'm given the following values within an object:
$myobject->make = "Volvo";
$myobject->color = "Silver Metallic";
I need to use the array above to return
Silver
Not sure how to plug it all together.
echo $cars[0][$myobject->make]...
$cars = [
['Volvo', 'Silver', 'Silver Metallic'],
['BMW', 'Red', 'Sunset Red'],
];
$make = 'Volvo';
$color = 'Silver Metallic';
$result = NULL;
foreach ($cars as $c) {
if ($c[0] === $make && $c[2] === $color) {
$result = $c[1];
break;
}
}
if ($result !== NULL) {
echo "found color: ".$result;
}
Depending how this array is set up, you could do something like this
$key = array_search('Silver Metallic', array_column($cars, '2'));
In your example, $key is 0, so you can then do something like
echo 'Color is ' . $cars[$key][1];
Not as scalable as foreach, but it could work for a limited subset of data like this
Silver Metallic.
Here you can pass your search data into the function as an array and leave any one field as an empty string ''... the function will return the missing field.
<?php
$cars = array(
array("Volvo", "Silver", "Silver Metallic"),
array("BMW", "Red", "Sunset Red")
);
function getSpecificValue($cars, $data)
{
foreach ($cars as $car) {
if ($data['make'] === '') {
if ($car[1] === $data['color'] && $car[2] === $data['color_name']) {
return $car[0];
}
} elseif ($data['color'] === '') {
if ($car[0] === $data['make'] && $car[2] === $data['color_name']) {
return $car[1];
}
} elseif ($data['color_name'] === '') {
if ($car[0] === $data['make'] && $car[1] === $data['color']) {
return $car[2];
}
}
}
}
$data = [
'make' => 'BMW',
'color' => 'Red',
'color_name' => '',
];
$result = getSpecificValue($cars, $data);
var_dump($result);
