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    copied!<p>I need some help starting a function that will parse through an array, check for certain values, if those values exist, create a new array with those values and array_push them all together.</p> <p>I'm passing through an array such as this:</p> <pre><code>Array ( [0] =&gt; Array ( [id] =&gt; 86 [34] =&gt; 695 [39] =&gt; 0 [40.1] =&gt; Yes [36.1] =&gt; Yes [35.4] =&gt; Card [33.3] =&gt; Dekalb [33.4] =&gt; Illinois [33.5] =&gt; 60115 [33.6] =&gt; United States [35.1] =&gt; 1143 [33.1] =&gt; 5555 Write Rd [33.2] =&gt; Write School [32.6] =&gt; John [32.3] =&gt; Smith [28] =&gt; jsmith@gmail.com [27] =&gt; 5555556554 [25] =&gt; NIUSN [14.3] =&gt; Jane [14.6] =&gt; Doe [11.2] =&gt; 695 [12] =&gt; 1 [11.1] =&gt; In-Person [3] =&gt; 0 [2.2] =&gt; 595 [2.1] =&gt; Online ) [1] =&gt; Array ( ...same stuff as before ) </code></pre> <p>I made a function <code>parseArray</code> to which I passed the above array. I go through every key/value combo and if a certain key exists, I set that to a variable. Then if all the right variables exist, I associate that to an array then push it to a final array (where all values will be held):</p> <pre><code>function parseArray($arry) { $results = array(); $current_result = array(); foreach($arry as $a) { foreach($a as $k =&gt; $v) { if ( $k == '14.3' ) { $attendee_first_name = $v; } if ( $k == '14.6' ) { $attendee_last_name = $v; } if ( $attendee_first_name &amp;&amp; $attendee_last_name ) { $full_name = $attendee_first_name . ' ' . $attendee_last_name; } } $current_result['attendee_name'] = $full_name; } array_push($results, $current_result); return $results; } </code></pre> <p>Now they way I have been doing it, has been very procedural and very clunky. I would love to get some insight on how to produce much cleaner/beautiful code for traversing an array and assigning value.</p> <p>Ideally I would love something like this to result:</p> <pre><code>Array ( [0] =&gt; Array ( [attendees_name] = John Smith [attendees_email] = jsmith@gmail.com [purchasing_name] = Jane Doe ...etc </code></pre> <p>So I can simply pass the output through a foreach and output the desired information easily.</p>
 

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