fork(1) download 
  1. <?php
  2.  
  3. $example = array(
  4. 	'foo' => array(
  5. 		'hello' => array(
  6. 			'world' => '!',
  7. 			'earth' => '?'
  8. 			)
  9. 		),
  10. 	'bar' => array());
  11.  
  12. 	function getArrayValueByKeyString($array,$keystring) {
  13. 		$dotPosition = stripos ($keystring , '.' );
  14. 		if($dotPosition !== FALSE) {
  15. 			$currentKeyPart 	= substr($keystring, 0, $dotPosition);
  16. 			$remainingKeyPart 	= substr($keystring, $dotPosition+1);
  17. 			echo '<hr/>Key Pairs = '.$currentKeyPart.' and '.$remainingKeyPart;
  18. 			if(array_key_exists($currentKeyPart, $array)) {
  19. 				return getArrayValueByKeyString(
  20. 					$array[$currentKeyPart],
  21. 					$remainingKeyPart);
  22. 			}
  23. 			else {
  24. 				// Handle Error
  25. 			}
  26. 		}
  27. 		elseif (array_key_exists($keystring, $array)) {
  28. 			return $array[$keystring];
  29. 		}
  30. 		else {
  31. 			// handle error
  32. 		}
  33. 	}
  34.  
  35. 	echo '<hr/>Value found: ' . getArrayValueByKeyString($example,'foo.hello.world');
Success #stdin #stdout 0.01s 20520KB
comments ()
stdin 
Standard input is empty
stdout 
<hr/>Key Pairs = foo and hello.world<hr/>Key Pairs = hello and world<hr/>Value found: !
https://ideone.com/YRgH8o
language:
PHP (php 7.3.5)
created:
11 years ago
visibility:
public

Share or Embed source code

Discover > Sphere Engine API

The brand new service which powers Ideone!

Discover > IDE Widget

Widget for compiling and running the source code in a web browser!