Is there a function to extract a 'column' from an array in PHP?

Question

I have an array of arrays, with the following structure :

array(array(\'page\' => \'page1\', \'name\' => \'pagename1\')
      array(\'page\' => \'pa         


        

Answer 1

Well there is. At least for PHP > 5.5.0 and it is called array_column

The PHP function takes an optional $index_keyparameter that - as per the PHP website - states:

$index_key

The column to use as the index/keys for the returned array. This value may be the integer key of the column, or it may be the string key name

In the answers here, i see a stripped version without the optional parameter. I needed it, so, here is the complete function:

if (!function_exists('array_column')) {
    function array_column($array, $column, $index_key = null) {
        $toret = array();
        foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
            if ($index_key === null){
                $toret[] = $value[$column];
            }else{
                $toret[$value[$index_key]] = $value[$column];
            }
        }
        return $toret;
    }
}