How to “flatten” a multi-dimensional array to simple one in PHP?

Question

It\'s probably beginner question but I\'m going through documentation for longer time already and I can\'t find any solution. I thought I could use implode for each dimensio

Answer 1

With PHP 7, you can use generators and generator delegation (yield from) to flatten an array:

function array_flatten_iterator (array $array) {
    foreach ($array as $value) {
        if (is_array($value)) {
            yield from array_flatten_iterator($value);
        } else {
            yield $value;
        }
    }
}

function array_flatten (array $array) {
    return iterator_to_array(array_flatten_iterator($array), false);
}

Example:

$array = [
    1,
    2,
    [
        3,
        4,
        5,
        [
            6,
            7
        ],
        8,
        9,
    ],
    10,
    11,
];    

var_dump(array_flatten($array));

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