I currently have the following array:
Array(
[0] => Array
(
[user] => Name 1
[group] => 1
)
[1] => Array
(
[user] => Name 2
[group] => 1
)
[2] => Array
(
[user] => Name 3
[group] => 2
)
[3] => Array
(
[user] => Name 4
[group] => 2
)
[4] => Array
(
[user] => Name 5
[group] => 3
)
)
I am attempting to create a new array with the various group
values as the key, then count how many are in each group to give the following:
Array
(
[1] => 2
[2] => 2
[3] => 1
)
I have attempted to use the following, however I get undefined index warnings:
$newArr = array();
foreach ($details['user_groups'] as $key => $value) {
$newArr[$value['user_groups']]++;
}
This can be done with a simple iteration:
$counts = array();
foreach ($array as $key=>$subarr) {
// Add to the current group count if it exists
if (isset($counts[$subarr['group']]) {
$counts[$subarr['group']]++;
}
// or initialize to 1 if it doesn't exist
else $counts[$subarr['group']] = 1;
// Or the ternary one-liner version
// instead of the preceding if/else block
$counts[$subarr['group']] = isset($counts[$subarr['group']]) ? $counts[$subarr['group']]++ : 1;
}
###Update for PHP 5.5
In PHP 5.5, which has added the array_column()
function to aggregate an inner key from a 2D array, this can be simplified to:
$counts = array_count_values(array_flip(array_column($array, 'group')));