Re: Converting string representation of a directory to multi-dimensional array

Richard Lynch wrote: > On Mon, February 5, 2007 12:27 pm, Matt Carlson wrote: >> Over the weekend, I was tasked with taking a string representation of >> a directory ('\Interface\Addons\<some dir>\<some file>'), which can >> vary in length (no set number of depths) to a multi-dimensional array >> (i.e. array('Interface' => array('Addons' => >> array('<some dir>' => >> <somefile>)));). >> >> We came up with a very ugly hack to do it, but I'm curious if anyone >> can help us wrap our head around a better solution, without using eval >> (which we were able to find that solution quickly, but do not want to >> use eval). >> >> Our situation is a little unique in the fact that these files don't >> actually exist on a filesystem, so it makes it a bit more tough to >> actually create this array. >> >> Thanks for any help you can give in cleaning this up somewhat. >> >> Here is the function we currently use: >> >> <?php >> >> $array = array(); >> >> addToList('\interface\addons\clearfont\clearfont.toc2', $array); >> addToList('\interface\addons\clearfont\clearfont.toc3', $array); >> addToList('\interface\addons\clearfont\clearfont.toc4', $array); >> addToList('\interface\addons\clearfont\clearfont.toc5', $array); >> addToList('\interface\addons\clearfont\subdir\something.toc', $array); > > function addToList($path){ > $parts = explode('\\', $path); > $result = array(); > $parts = array_reverse($parts); > foreach($parts as $part){ > //something with array_splice here... > $result = array_splice(array($result), $part); //??? array_splice won't cut it as it only splices at 1 level, unless I misunderstood the OP is looking to dynamically build a multilevel array - which means either using recursion or 'reference based array digging' (as I like to call it ;-) there may also be some kind of solution based on ArrayArrayArrayIteratorIteratorRecursiveArrayIteratorIteratorRecursiveIterator but personally I don't grok those exotic forms of SPL interface well enough to tell you. > } > } >