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

Another method from PHP's user comments (simplified) and here:

function array_flatten_recursive($array) { 
   if (!$array) return false;
   $flat = array();
   $RII = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($array));
   foreach ($RII as $value) $flat[] = $value;
   return $flat;
}

The big benefit of this method is that it tracks the depth of the recursion, should you need that while flattening.
This will output:

$array = array( 
    'A' => array('B' => array( 1, 2, 3)), 
    'C' => array(4, 5) 
); 
print_r(array_flatten_recursive($array)); 

#Returns: 
Array ( 
    [0] => 1 
    [1] => 2 
    [2] => 3 
    [3] => 4 
    [4] => 5 
)