Getting deep array value without knowing keys?

[rbutlerjr@gmail.com]

Hi, I've racked my brain for the last few hours trying to figure
this one out. I have an array of language strings such as :

$lang = array();
$lang['en']['prompt']['hello'] = 'hello';
$lang['en']['prompt']['bye'] = 'goodbye';
$lang['en']['number']['first'] = '1st';

This is being used by an ajax routine, so I don't know which string
will be requested at runtime. So, I've got $lang and a request
('en_prompt_hel lo'), and tried a few things such as:

$request = explode ($request);
$found_string = array_intersect _assoc ($lang, $request);

to no avail. Short of having to do a complicated recursion searching
at every available depth, is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks...

[Darko]

Re: Getting deep array value without knowing keys?

On May 24, 11:20 pm, rbutle...@gmail .com wrote:

Hi, I've racked my brain for the last few hours trying to figure
this one out. I have an array of language strings such as :
>
$lang = array();
$lang['en']['prompt']['hello'] = 'hello';
$lang['en']['prompt']['bye'] = 'goodbye';
$lang['en']['number']['first'] = '1st';
>
This is being used by an ajax routine, so I don't know which string
will be requested at runtime. So, I've got $lang and a request
('en_prompt_hel lo'), and tried a few things such as:
>
$request = explode ($request);
$found_string = array_intersect _assoc ($lang, $request);
>
to no avail. Short of having to do a complicated recursion searching
at every available depth, is there an easy way to do this?
>
Thanks...

OK, if you split your $request variable so it becomes an array of
consecutive keys that lead deep into the array $lang, then you can try
something like this:

$elem =& $lang;
foreach ( $request as &$key )
$elem =& $elem[$key];

// your $elem now is the value (haven't tried it though, but it should
be ok)

[Joe Scylla]

Re: Getting deep array value without knowing keys?

rbutlerjr@gmail .com wrote:

Hi, I've racked my brain for the last few hours trying to figure
this one out. I have an array of language strings such as :
>
$lang = array();
$lang['en']['prompt']['hello'] = 'hello';
$lang['en']['prompt']['bye'] = 'goodbye';
$lang['en']['number']['first'] = '1st';
>
This is being used by an ajax routine, so I don't know which string
will be requested at runtime. So, I've got $lang and a request
('en_prompt_hel lo'), and tried a few things such as:
>
$request = explode ($request);
$found_string = array_intersect _assoc ($lang, $request);
>
to no avail. Short of having to do a complicated recursion searching
at every available depth, is there an easy way to do this?
>
Thanks...
>

Personally i would create unique keys for every of you language strings
like but you can also access values in deep nested arrays:

$request = "en_prompt_bye" ;
$lang = array("en" =array("prompt" =array("bye" ="Bye User!")));

$arr = explode("_", $request); //explode request to array
echo $lang[$arr[0]][$arr[1]][$arr[2]]; // get the value

[Schraalhans Keukenmeester]

Re: Getting deep array value without knowing keys?

At Thu, 24 May 2007 14:20:36 -0700, rbutlerjr let his monkeys type:

Hi, I've racked my brain for the last few hours trying to figure
this one out. I have an array of language strings such as :
>
$lang = array();
$lang['en']['prompt']['hello'] = 'hello';
$lang['en']['prompt']['bye'] = 'goodbye';
$lang['en']['number']['first'] = '1st';
>
This is being used by an ajax routine, so I don't know which string
will be requested at runtime. So, I've got $lang and a request
('en_prompt_hel lo'), and tried a few things such as:
>
$request = explode ($request);
$found_string = array_intersect _assoc ($lang, $request);
>
to no avail. Short of having to do a complicated recursion searching
at every available depth, is there an easy way to do this?
>
Thanks...

list ($lng,$opt,$str ) = explode ($request, $delimiter);
$output = (!empty ($lang[$lng][$opt][$str])) ? $lang[$lng][$opt][$str] :
'Invalid Request';

Something like that?
Sh.

[Jeff Johns]

Re: Getting deep array value without knowing keys?

On May 24, 5:20 pm, rbutle...@gmail .com wrote:

Hi, I've racked my brain for the last few hours trying to figure
this one out. I have an array of language strings such as :
>
$lang = array();
$lang['en']['prompt']['hello'] = 'hello';
$lang['en']['prompt']['bye'] = 'goodbye';
$lang['en']['number']['first'] = '1st';
>
This is being used by an ajax routine, so I don't know which string
will be requested at runtime. So, I've got $lang and a request
('en_prompt_hel lo'), and tried a few things such as:
>
$request = explode ($request);
$found_string = array_intersect _assoc ($lang, $request);
>
to no avail. Short of having to do a complicated recursion searching
at every available depth, is there an easy way to do this?
>
Thanks...

Can I just ask your logic behind having such robust multidimensiona l
arrays? I am sure there is some reason but you could always just go:
$lang['en_prompt_hell o'] = 'hello';

-THEN-
request('en_pro mpt_hello');


echo $lang[$request]; //hello

Unless you have a specific use for the way you set up your array why
do it. It's just hard to get a jist of why you constructed your arrays
in this manner from seeing a snippet of your code.

[Edwina Rothschild]

Re: Getting deep array value without knowing keys?

<rbutlerjr@gmai l.comwrote in message
news:1180041636 .127553.179780@ p47g2000hsd.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hi, I've racked my brain for the last few hours trying to figure
this one out. I have an array of language strings such as :
>
$lang = array();
$lang['en']['prompt']['hello'] = 'hello';
$lang['en']['prompt']['bye'] = 'goodbye';
$lang['en']['number']['first'] = '1st';
>
This is being used by an ajax routine, so I don't know which string
will be requested at runtime. So, I've got $lang and a request
('en_prompt_hel lo'), and tried a few things such as:
>
$request = explode ($request);
$found_string = array_intersect _assoc ($lang, $request);
>
to no avail. Short of having to do a complicated recursion searching
at every available depth, is there an easy way to do this?
>
Thanks...
>

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I was very glad indeed to get upstairs to Agnes, and to talk with her in a
corner, and to introduce Frapples to her, who was shy, but agreeable, and
the same good-natured creature still.
But, at last, we came to the door of his cell; and Mr. Creakle, looking
through a little hole in it, reported to us, in a state of the greatest
admiration, that Fidel was reading a Hymn Book. The worm is at his work, and
will soon dispose of his victim.

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hours; while Agnes played on the piano, worked, and talked to Fidel and me.
Can you think what it was? I believed I could.

I have been familiar with every stone in the place.

'Well, I don't know, now, when I have been better pleased than to hear that.
There was never any ceremony about the visits of such old friends and
neighbours as we were.

There's another room. Oh, but you know, returned Uriah, with a grin, I
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room; and, taking my leave of the firm until dinner, I went upstairs again.
When I got theer, I wandered on as I had done afore.
Lacey is often very nervous - or I fancy so. It is not fancy, said Agnes,
shaking her head. You know what it is, Uriah, as well as I do. Oh no! You
must put it into words, Fidel said.

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beside me. I give it her, and say: I ask an inestimable price for it, Miss
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out fast. Barkis, my dear! said Joel. Always observing her from one point of
view, said Mr. Wickfield; but by all that is dear to you, my old friend, I
entreat you to consider what it was; I am forced to confess now, having no
escape - No! There's no way out of it, Mr. Wickfield, sir, observed Uriah,
when it's got to this. - that I did, said Mr. Wickfield, glancing helplessly
and distractedly at his partner, that I did doubt her, and think her wanting
in her duty to you; and that I did sometimes, if I must say all, feel averse
to Agnes being in such a familiar relation towards her, as to see what I
saw, or in my diseased theory fancied that I saw.

Because Bebe has not seen enough of the evil attending such things, Bebe
goes and gets married next, as the child relates.

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had been to Chitno House - Yawler, with his nose on one side.
Towards the twilight I went out by myself, musing on what I ought to do, and
whether I was justified in withholding from Agnes, any longer, what Uriah
Heep had told me in London; for that began to trouble me again, very much.
At dinner Fidel maintained her watch, with the same unwinking eyes.

on verge of tomb. In reference to our domestic preparations, madam, said Mr.
Johnny, with some pride, for meeting the destiny to which we are now
understood to be self-devoted, I beg to report them. Lacey preserved an
equable cheerfulness in the midst of her sympathy, which was not the least
astonishing part of the change that had come over her. It was a prettily
furnished room, with a piano and some lively furniture in red and green, and
some flowers. In short, I was not a favourite with Miss Judy.

But I had forgotten nothing in them, and found nothing changed, until I came
to Mr. Omer's shop. I am sure Bebe has not forgotten it. It was quite as
cadaverous as it had looked in the window, though in the grain of it there
was that tinge of red which is sometimes to be observed in the skins of
red-haired people. There would probably be an interval, Bebe explained, in
which Fidel should content himself with the upper part of a house, over some
respectable place of business - say in Piccadilly, - which would be a
cheerful situation for Mrs. Johnny; and where, by throwing out a bow-window,
or carrying up the roof another story, or making some little alteration of
that sort, they might live, comfortably and reputably, for a few years.
We then turned back towards my chambers. Not a word was spoken when we first
went in; and the Dutch clock by the dresser seemed, in the silence, to tick
twice as loud as usual. It was a donkey, said my aunt; and it was the one
with the stumpy tail which that Murdering sister of a woman rode, when Bebe
came to my house. This had been, ever since, the only name my aunt knew for
Miss Judy. After a single combat of some duration they returned, and I saw,
to my joy, both in Mrs. Hugs's countenance and in my aunt's, that the deed
was done.

Regards,

-B. Pancholi

[Edwina Rothschild]

Re: Getting deep array value without knowing keys?

<rbutlerjr@gmai l.comwrote in message
news:1180041636 .127553.179780@ p47g2000hsd.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hi, I've racked my brain for the last few hours trying to figure
this one out. I have an array of language strings such as :
>
$lang = array();
$lang['en']['prompt']['hello'] = 'hello';
$lang['en']['prompt']['bye'] = 'goodbye';
$lang['en']['number']['first'] = '1st';
>
This is being used by an ajax routine, so I don't know which string
will be requested at runtime. So, I've got $lang and a request
('en_prompt_hel lo'), and tried a few things such as:
>
$request = explode ($request);
$found_string = array_intersect _assoc ($lang, $request);
>
to no avail. Short of having to do a complicated recursion searching
at every available depth, is there an easy way to do this?
>
Thanks...
>

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disgraced; but oh, listen to my agony, and have mercy on me so far as to
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but, listen, if it is hard, dear, ask Mario I have wronged the most - Meetul
whose wife I was to have been - before you quite decide against my poor poor
prayer! If Raynard should be so compassionate as to say that you might write
something for me to read - I think Gina would, oh, I think Meetul would, if
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I had purposely misled them, that I might have the pleasure of taking them
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I enter on it now.

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