ArrayLib.php

<?php
/**
 * Library of static methods for manipulating arrays.
 * @package sapphire
 * @subpackage misc
 */
class ArrayLib {
	
	/**
	 * Inverses the first and second level keys of an associative
	 * array, keying the result by the second level, and combines
	 * all first level entries within them.
	 * 
	 * Before:
	 * <example>
	 * array(
	 * 	'row1' => array(
	 * 		'col1' =>'val1',
	 * 		'col2' => 'val2'
	 * 	),
	 * 	'row2' => array(
	 * 		'col1' => 'val3',
	 * 		'col2' => 'val4'
	 * 	)
	 * )
	 * </example>
	 * 
	 * After:
	 * <example>
	 * array(
	 * 	'col1' => array(
	 * 		'row1' => 'val1',
	 * 		'row2' => 'val3',
	 * 	),
	 * 	'col2' => array(
	 * 		'row1' => 'val2',
	 * 		'row2' => 'val4',
	 * 	),
	 * )
	 * </example>
	 * 
	 * @param array $arr
	 * @return array
	 */
	static function invert($arr) {
		if(!$arr) return false;
		$result = array();
		
		foreach($arr as $columnName => $column) {
			foreach($column as $rowName => $cell) {
				$result[$rowName][$columnName] = $cell;
			}
		}
		
		return $result;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Return an array where the keys are all equal to the values
	 * 
	 * @param $arr array
	 * @return array
	 */
	static function valuekey($arr) {
		return array_combine($arr, $arr);
	}
	
	/**
	 * @todo Improve documentation
	 */
	static function array_values_recursive($arr) {
	   $lst = array();
	   foreach(array_keys($arr) as $k){
	     $v = $arr[$k];
	     if (is_scalar($v)) {
	         $lst[] = $v;
	     } elseif (is_array($v)) {
	         $lst = array_merge( $lst,
	           self::array_values_recursive($v)
	         );
	     }
	   }
	   return $lst;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Filter an array by keys (useful for only allowing certain form-input to be saved).
	 * 
	 * @param $arr array
	 * @param $keys array
	 * @return array
	 */
	static function filter_keys($arr, $keys)
	{
		foreach ($arr as $key => $v) {
			if (!in_array($key, $keys)) {
				unset($arr[$key]);
			}
		}
		return $arr;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Determines if an array is associative by checking
	 * for existing keys via array_key_exists().
	 * @see http://nz.php.net/manual/en/function.is-array.php#76188
	 *
	 * @param array $arr
	 * @return boolean
	 */
	static function is_associative($arr) {
		if(is_array($arr) && ! empty($arr)) {
	        for($iterator = count($arr) - 1; $iterator; $iterator--) {
	            if (!array_key_exists($iterator, $arr)) return true;
	        }
	        return !array_key_exists(0, $arr);
	    }
    	return false;
	}

	/**
	 * Recursively searches an array $haystack for the value(s) $needle.
	 * Assumes that all values in $needle (if $needle is an array) are at 
	 * the SAME level, not spread across multiple dimensions of the $haystack.
	 *
	 * @param mixed $needle
	 * @param array $haystack
	 * @param boolean $strict
	 * @return boolean
	 */
	static function in_array_recursive($needle, $haystack, $strict = false) {
		if(!is_array($haystack)) return false; // Not an array, we've gone as far as we can down this branch
		
		if(in_array($needle, $haystack, $strict)) return true; // Is it in this level of the array?
		else {
			foreach($haystack as $obj) { // It's not, loop over the rest of this array
				if(self::in_array_recursive($needle, $obj, $strict)) return true; 
			}
		}
		
		return false; // Never found $needle :(
	}
	
}

?>