Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:42381
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain phpro.org from 80.76.201.53 cause and error)
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:55:23 +1100
To: internals@lists.php.net
Message-ID: <20081227005523.2961ecd4.kevin@phpro.org>
In-Reply-To: <5faa7b820812260106p6f24bf0ct49ef574e5ed4e2c2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5faa7b820812260106p6f24bf0ct49ef574e5ed4e2c2@mail.gmail.com>
Organization: PHPRO
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: array_flatten function
From: kevin@phpro.org (Kevin Waterson)

This one time, at band camp, "Mike Panchenko" <m@mihasya.com> wrote:

> Hey everybody, I'm new both to the list and to hacking the internals, so
> I'll try to keep it short and humble.
> 
> I've written an array_flatten function which just takes all elements from a
> nested array and pushes them into a single indexed array.

function flattenArray(array $array){
   $ret_array = array();
   foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($array)) as $value)
   {
     $ret_array[] = $value;
   }
   return $ret_array;
  }

Kevin