I've seen many questions around this topic, but not any near the case I have.
I have like a really simple folder path as key and want to make the array into a multidimensional array.
My current array
[
'projects' => 'A path',
'projects/project-a' => 'Another path',
'projects/project-b' => 'Yet another path',
'about/me/and/someone/else' => 'Path about me'
]
This is the result I try to get:
[
'projects' => [
'path' => 'A path',
'children' => [
'project-a' => [
'path' => 'Another path'
],
'project-b' => [
'path' => 'Yet another path'
]
]
],
'about' => [
'children' => [
'me' => [
'children' => [
'and' => [
'children' => [
'someone' => [
'children' => [
'else' => [
'path' => 'Path about me'
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
Maybe I can use array_walk_recursive somehow. I know explode can be used to split the parts by /
.
Notes
projects/project-a
does not have children.about
and all children except the last one does not have a path.$result = [];
foreach($arr as $k=>$v) {
$path = explode('/', $k);
// temporary array for one path
$temp = [];
// Pointer, used to add a next level
$p = &$temp;
// Save the last part of path
$last = array_pop($path);
foreach($path as $s) {
// Make level upto the last
$p[$s] = ['children' => []];
$p = &$p[$s]['children'];
}
// Add a value
$p[$last] = ['path' => $v];
$result = array_merge_recursive($result, $temp);
}
print_r($result);