| How do you swap two values in an array?
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londrum
msg:4229525 | 11:11 am on Nov 12, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Hello. I've had a good look through the docs, but I can't find a ready made php function to swap two values in an array, so I was hoping someone might know one.
Here's my problem...
I've got an array like this
Array( [0] => sydney [1] => paris [2] => london [3] => madrid )
The elements are in no particular order. the user chooses whichever order they want.
But i want them to be able to move the values up and down the list, one position at a time. So if they moved paris up the list, it would change to this
Array( [0] => paris [1] => sydney [2] => london [3] => madrid )
is there a function to swap two values around?
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Anyango
msg:4229577 | 2:53 pm on Nov 12, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Here you go, It was fun so i made 2 more functions, allowing us to swap by value or by index, just for the fun or it. they may be useful for someone reading this post
<pre>
<?php
$cities=array();
$cities[]="Sydney";
$cities[]="Paris";
$cities[]="London";
$cities[]="Madrid";
print_r($cities);
/*
$cities=swapByValues($cities,"Paris","Madrid");
print_r($cities);
$cities=swapByIndex($cities,0,1);
print_r($cities);
*/
$cities=moveUp($cities,"Paris");
$cities=moveDown($cities,"London");
print_r($cities);
function moveUp($values,$value)
{
$index1=array_search($value,$values);
if($index1==0)
{
return $values;
}
else
{
$index2=$index1-1;
$value1=$values[$index1];
$value2=$values[$index2];
$values[$index1]=$value2;
$values[$index2]=$value1;
return $values;
}
}
function moveDown($values,$value)
{
$index1=array_search($value,$values);
$lastIndex=count($values)-1;
if($index1==$lastIndex)
{
return $values;
}
else
{
$index2=$index1+1;
$value1=$values[$index1];
$value2=$values[$index2];
$values[$index1]=$value2;
$values[$index2]=$value1;
return $values;
}
}
function swapByValues($values,$value1,$value2)
{
$index1=array_search($value1,$values);
$index2=array_search($value2,$values);
$values[$index1]=$value2;
$values[$index2]=$value1;
return $values;
}
function swapByIndex($values,$index1,$index2)
{
$value1=$values[$index1];
$value2=$values[$index2];
$values[$index1]=$value2;
$values[$index2]=$value1;
return $values;
}
?>
</pre>
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enigma1
msg:4229590 | 3:30 pm on Nov 12, 2010 (gmt 0) |
There is no direct function. Here is a function to exchange 2 values of an array:
function exchange_array_elements($src_array, $index) {
if( empty($src_array) || !is_array($src_array) || count($src_array) < 2 ) return $src_array;
$j = count($src_array);
$index = max($index, 1);
$index = min($index, $j-1);
$replace = $src_array[$index];
array_splice($src_array, $index-1, 0, $replace);
array_splice($src_array, $index+1, 1);
return $src_array;
}
// test
$index = 2;
$src_array = array('sydney', 'paris', 'london', 'madrid');
$result_array = exchange_array_elements($src_array, $index);
print_r($result_array);
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It will swap $index with $index-1 after validating the array and index.
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Anyango
msg:4230912 | 8:01 am on Nov 16, 2010 (gmt 0) |
No interest in the solution?
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londrum
msg:4230927 | 9:13 am on Nov 16, 2010 (gmt 0) |
sorry guys, i reckon your ideas would have been good. i managed to get a really easy one that only takes a few lines.
if you feed the position the user wants to 'move up' into $_GET['pos'], and the array of places is called $value, all i did was this
$position1 = $_GET['pos'];
$position2 = $position1 - 1;
$tmpa = $values[$position1];
$tmpb = $values[$position2];
$values[$position1] = $tmpb;
$values[$position2] = $tmpa;
and for the 'move down' version, you just change
$position2 = $position1 - 1
to
$position2 = $position1 + 1
suprised php doesnt have its own function for something like this though. i think they must everything but
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Matthew1980
msg:4230976 | 12:54 pm on Nov 16, 2010 (gmt 0) |
>>No interest in the solution?
Thanks for that anyango, I'm sure that people will find this little snippet quite useful, I shall have a play with it myself as I can see a potential application for it.
londrum, good that you found a work around for this little issue, happy coding!
Cheers,
MRb
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enigma1
msg:4231152 | 7:37 pm on Nov 16, 2010 (gmt 0) |
that only swaps two adjacent values, doesn't really exchange. And you will endup with a corrupt array if the passed value is outside the array boundaries.
If I had to drag/drop a row within a table an adjacent swap won't do
The elements are in no particular order. the user chooses whichever order they want.
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