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    copied!<p>I have php array structure like this:</p> <pre><code>array( 'servicemanagement.scheduler.events.edit' =&gt; 'Edit', 'servicemanagement.scheduler.events.delete' =&gt; 'Delete', 'servicemanagement.scheduler.events' =&gt; 'Events', 'servicemanagement.scheduler' =&gt; 'Scheduler', 'servicemanagement.subscribers' =&gt; 'Subscribers', 'servicemanagement.subscribers.index' =&gt; 'Index', 'servicemanagement' =&gt; 'Service management', ); </code></pre> <p>And I would like to convert is to multidimensional array like:</p> <pre><code>array( 'servicemanagement' =&gt; array( 'id' =&gt; 'servicemanagement', 'title' =&gt; 'Service Management', 'children' =&gt; array( 'scheduler' =&gt; array( 'id' =&gt; 'servicemanagement.scheduler', 'title' =&gt; 'Scheduler', 'children' =&gt; array( 'events' =&gt; array( 'id' =&gt; 'servicemanagement.scheduler.events', 'title' =&gt; 'Events', 'children' =&gt; array( 'edit' =&gt; array( 'id' =&gt; 'servicemanagement.scheduler.events.edit', 'title' =&gt; 'Edit', 'children' =&gt; array(), ), 'delete' =&gt; array( 'id' =&gt; 'servicemanagement.scheduler.events.delete', 'title' =&gt; 'Delete', 'children' =&gt; array(), ), ), ), ), ), 'subscribers' =&gt; array( 'id' =&gt; 'servicemanagement.subscribers', 'title' =&gt; 'Subscribers', 'children' =&gt; array( 'index' =&gt; array( 'id' =&gt; 'servicemanagement.subscribers.index', 'title' =&gt; 'Index', ) ), ), ), ), ); </code></pre> <p>I have checked some answers already like this one: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13359681/how-to-set-a-deep-array-in-php?answertab=active#tab-top">How to set a deep array in PHP</a></p> <p>But it seems that i could not manage to clear up the writing on top of the arrays and the last record 'servicemanagement' removes all of the previous records.</p> <p>The function that is used there is </p> <pre><code>function setArray(&amp;$array, $keys, $value) { $keys = explode(".", $keys); $current = &amp;$array; foreach($keys as $key) { $current = &amp;$current[$key]; } $current = $value; } </code></pre> <p>Another function that I have found but it is not doing the expected result is:</p> <pre><code>function unflatten($array,$prefix = '') { $result = array(); foreach($array as $key=&gt;$value) { if (!empty($prefix)) { $key = preg_replace('#^'.preg_quote($prefix).'#','',$key); } if (strpos($key,'.') !== false) { parse_str('result['.str_replace('.','][',$key)."]=".$value); } else { $result[$key] = $value; } } return $result; } </code></pre> <p>It is an option to use recursion to unflatten this array since the end format is the same for all records.</p> <p>May anyone give me a tip ot this one?</p>
 

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