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Ayaz Alavi
Ayaz Alavi

Reputation: 4835

Get array values by keys

I am searching for a built in php function that takes array of keys as input and returns me corresponding values.

for e.g. I have a following array 

$arr = array("key1"=>100, "key2"=>200, "key3"=>300, 'key4'=>400);

and I need values for the keys key2 and key4 so I have another array("key2", "key4") I need a function that takes this array and first array as inputs and provide me values in response. So response will be array(200, 400)

Upvotes: 82

Views: 106631

Answers (3)

Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 8480

I think you are searching for array_intersect_key. Example:

$arr = [ "key1"=>100, "key2"=>200, "key3"=>300, 'key4'=>400 ];
$keys = [ "key2", "key4" ];
print_r(
    array_intersect_key(
        $arr,
        array_flip($keys)
    )
);

Would return:

Array ( [key2] => 200 [key4] => 400 )

You may use ['key2' => '', 'key4' => '' instead of array_flip(...) if you want to have a little simpler code.

Note the array keys are preserved. You should use array_values afterwards if you need a sequential array.

Upvotes: 170

user2027151
user2027151

Reputation:

An alternative answer:

$keys = array("key2", "key4");

return array_map(function($x) use ($arr) { return $arr[$x]; }, $keys);

Upvotes: 29

Amber
Amber

Reputation: 527458

foreach($input_arr as $key) {
    $output_arr[] = $mapping[$key];
}

This will result in $output_arr having the values corresponding to a list of keys in $input_arr, based on the key->value mapping in $mapping. If you want, you could wrap it in a function:

function get_values_for_keys($mapping, $keys) {
    foreach($keys as $key) {
        $output_arr[] = $mapping[$key];
    }
    return $output_arr;
}

Then you would just call it like so:

$a = array('a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3);
$values = get_values_for_keys($a, array('a', 'c'));
// $values is now array(1, 3)

Upvotes: 10

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