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

Using higher-order functions (note: I'm using inline anonymous functions, which appeared in PHP 5.3):

function array_flatten($array) {
    return array_reduce(
        $array,
        function($prev, $element) {
            if (!is_array($element))
                $prev[] = $element;
            else
                $prev = array_merge($prev, array_flatten($element));
            return $prev;
        },
        array()
    );
}