Re: Printing an array

...because you never shrink $prefix after output(), try array_pop($prefix); Alexander Skwar wrote:

Hello! I'd like to print an array kinda like the way it was created. Ie., I've got the following array: $r[0][0]['name'] = 'joe'; $r[0][0]['gender'] = 'male'; $r[0][0]['prop'] = 'prefs'; $r[0][0][0]['text'] = 'mail'; $r[0][0][0]['set'] = 'yes'; $r[0][0][1]['text'] = 'phone'; $r[0][0][1]['set'] = 'no'; Now I'd like to have a function which I'd pass the array and get the following output: r[0][0]['name'] = 'joe' r[0][0]['gender'] = 'male' r[0][0]['prop'] = 'prefs' r[0][0][0]['text'] = 'mail' r[0][0][0]['set'] = 'yes' r[0][0][1]['text'] = 'phone' r[0][0][1]['set'] = 'no' Right now, I've got the following not quite working function: <?php function output($array, $name, $prefix = array()){ foreach ($array as $key => $value){

    if (! is_array($value)){
      if (0 < count($prefix)){
        // Prefix vorhanden
        printf ("%s%s[%s] = '%s'\n", $name, implode('', $prefix), $key, $value);
      } else {
        // Kein Prefix angegeben
        printf ("%s[%s] = %s\n", $name, $key, $value);
      }
    } else {
      $prefix[] = sprintf('[%s]', $key);
      output($value, $name, $prefix);
    }

} } ?> This produces the following output: r[0][0][name] = 'joe' r[0][0][gender] = 'male' r[0][0][prop] = 'prefs' r[0][0][0][text] = 'mail' r[0][0][0][set] = 'yes' r[0][0][0][1][text] = 'phone' r[0][0][0][1][set] = 'no' As you can see in the line with "phone", I've still got an error somewhere. The "phone" line should be: r[0][0][1]['text'] = 'phone' But it is: r[0][0][0][1]['text'] = 'phone' The 3rd [0] is too much. This means, that I somehow need to get rid of the 3rd [0]. It seems like I did not notice that I went "up" again in the array. Could somebody please help me in refining the function so that it works? Thanks a lot!