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vincent
vincent

Reputation: 2835

removing array from multidimensional array

I have a session that looks like this:

array(3) {
  ["counter"]=>
  int(0)
  ["currentItem"]=>
  string(1) "2"
  ["addedToCart"]=>
  array(12) {
    [0]=>
    array(11) {
      ["aantal"]=>
      int(1)
      ["id"]=>
      string(1) "1"
      ["filmtitel"]=>
      string(11) "a_bugs_life"
      ["film_id"]=>
      string(1) "2"
      ["zaal_id"]=>
      string(1) "1"
      ["zaaltitel"]=>
      string(6) "zaal 1"
      ["tijdstip"]=>
      string(8) "15:00:00"
      ["stoeltjes"]=>
      string(2) "21"
      ["dag"]=>
      string(8) "woensdag"
      ["verwijder"]=>
      int(2)
      ["vertoningId"]=>
      string(1) "3"
    }
    [1]=>
    array(11) {
      ["aantal"]=>
      int(1)
      ["id"]=>
      string(1) "1"
      ["filmtitel"]=>
      string(11) "a_bugs_life"
      ["film_id"]=>
      string(1) "2"
      ["zaal_id"]=>
      string(1) "1"
      ["zaaltitel"]=>
      string(6) "zaal 1"
      ["tijdstip"]=>
      string(8) "15:00:00"
      ["stoeltjes"]=>
      string(1) "7"
      ["dag"]=>
      string(8) "woensdag"
      ["verwijder"]=>
      int(2)
      ["vertoningId"]=>
      string(1) "3"
    }
    [2]=>
    array(11) {
      ["aantal"]=>
      int(1)
      ["id"]=>
      string(1) "1"
      ["filmtitel"]=>
      string(11) "a_bugs_life"
      ["film_id"]=>
      string(1) "2"
      ["zaal_id"]=>
      string(1) "1"
      ["zaaltitel"]=>
      string(6) "zaal 1"
      ["tijdstip"]=>
      string(8) "15:00:00"
      ["stoeltjes"]=>
      string(2) "22"
      ["dag"]=>
      string(8) "woensdag"
      ["verwijder"]=>
      int(2)
      ["vertoningId"]=>
      string(1) "3"
    }
  }
}

Now, from $_SESSION['addedToCart] I would like to remove arrays if they meet to certain conditions. I have tried the following.

foreach ($_SESSION["addedToCart"] as $arr) {
       if ($arr["stoeltjes"] == $stoeltje && $arr['film_id'] == $id) {
            unset($arr);
       }
 }

This doesn't seem to work, it doesn't remove anything, I did a var_dump to check if the variables $stoeltje and $id were fine and they were fine so that cant be the problem. Am I able to use unset in this kind of situation?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 20430

Answers (5)

Jean Kássio
Jean Kássio

Reputation: 11

remove_array_key("film_id", $array);

function remove_array_key($key, &$array)
{
    $result = array_key_exists($key, $array);

    if ($result) {
        unset($array[$key]);
        return $array;
    }

    foreach ($array as &$v) {
        if (is_array($v)) {
            $result = remove_array_key($key, $v);
        }
        if (is_array($result)) {
            unset($v[$key]);
            return $array;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

Link to Github Explanation

Upvotes: 0

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 12443

Even if the suggested way with the reference should work normally, here's an example without it: 

foreach ($_SESSION["addedToCart"] as $key => $arr) {
       if ($arr["stoeltjes"] == $stoeltje && $arr['film_id'] == $id) {
            unset($_SESSION["addedToCart"][$key]);
       }
 }

Upvotes: 2

jasonbar
jasonbar

Reputation: 13461

foreach ($_SESSION["addedToCart"] as &$arr)

& turns your variable into a reference instead of a copy. Normally this would be sufficient. unset() only works on data within the current scope (so your foreach loop) leaving the original unchanged (See unset() for details).

Instead you can do:

foreach ($_SESSION["addedToCart"] as $key => $val)
{
    if ($val["stoeltjes"] == $stoeltje && $val['film_id'] == $id) {
        unset($_SESSION["addedToCart"][$key]);
   }
}

Upvotes: 8

Zsolti
Zsolti

Reputation: 1607

Try this:

$arr = array(1, 2, 3, 4); 
foreach ($arr as $key => &$value) { 
    if ($value == 2)
    {
        unset($arr[$key]);
    }
} 
print_r($arr);

Upvotes: 1

naugtur
naugtur

Reputation: 16895

It doesn't work, because foreach is working on a copy, therefore $arr is just a copy of each element in the main table.

from php.net:

As of PHP 5, you can easily modify array's elements by preceding $value with &. This will assign reference instead of copying the value. 

$arr = array(1, 2, 3, 4);
foreach ($arr as &$value) {
    $value = $value * 2;
}
// $arr is now array(2, 4, 6, 8)

Upvotes: 1

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